Resources
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Parent Education Resource
Website dedicated to help parents assess if their children
are ready for kindergarten.
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DiscoverySchool.com
Excellent website from The Discovery Channel network. Lots
of resources and articles for students, parents and
teachers.
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Positive Parenting.com
"Positive Parenting is dedicated to providing resources
and information to help make parenting more rewarding,
effective and fun!". This site contains some good
articles.
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National Parenting Center
The National Parenting Center's Seal of Approval program
is an independent testing procedure conducted to judge a
variety of products introduced and marketed to the
parent/child consumer market. You will find a list of
products with their review to help you make the decision
whether an article or product is suitable for your
children.
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ParentSmart.com
Lots of articles to help your child succeed in school. It
uses an internal search engine to look for your articles.
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Family Education Network
very good website providing homework help, parenting tips,
and expert advice on several subjects.
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Questions Parents Ask About Schools
Provided by the US Department of Education's Partnership
for Family Involvement in Education. This easy-to-read
question and answer booklet discusses teachers'
expectations and student workload at each grade level, how
parents can help their children succeed in the classroom,
safety issues in schools, steps for college preparation,
and much more.
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RMC Research Corporation’s Family
and Education
This web site provides information and ideas to help
parents understand how schools and other educational
programs work; how children learn; and how parents and
families can best contribute to the learning process.
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Parent Center.com
Provides information about learning, including resources
that give suggestions on how to help children build skills
and become more engaged in school, as well as information
about how parents can help promote school success.
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Challenge Young Minds: 50 Ways
to Better Education
Provided by the US Department of Education's Partnership
for Family Involvement in Education. Describes 50 simple
ways to help improve children's education and contains
activities for parents and family members; employers;
teachers, administrators, and principals; and community
members, neighbors, and concerned citizens. This booklet
was produced by the Education Excellence Partnership. To
order call 1-877-4ED-PUBS, or fax 301-470-1244. *If 877 is
not yet available in your area, call 1-800-USA-LEARN
(1-800-872-5327); TTY/TDD call 1-800-437-0833.
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Ladies Home Journal
Offers a grade-by-grade guide that highlights
some of the behaviors and learning opportunities that
school age children may experience.
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Parent News, by The
National Parent Information Network (NPIN). An
award-winning online source of news on child rearing and
education for parents. Parent News is updated monthly and
includes feature articles, listings and descriptions of
parenting-related organizations, newsletters, books, and
Internet sites, and community parent-support programming
ideas.
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The Laboratory for Student Success (LSS) at Temple
University is one of ten Regional Educational Laboratories
(RELs) funded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
of the U.S. Department of Education to revitalize and
reform educational practices in the service of student
success. Their
Partnerships series are brochures
aimed at teachers and parents that focus on increasing the
chances of academic success and healthy development of
children and youth.
Download them on-line at
http://www.temple.edu/lss/partnerships.htm
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