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- ACT :
Information For Parents : Resources - Educational planning and career
development assistance for parents.
- Ages
and Grades - Your child's development through the years.
- The Alternative Education Resource
Organization - A listing of alternative schools, including charter,
independent, Montessori, and other "unusual" schooling options.
- Awesome Library
- K-12 Education Directory for Parents - The Awesome Library organizes
10,000 carefully reviewed K-12 education resources for parents. It contains
a directory, an index, and a search engine.
- A Boost To Your
Child's Standardized Test Scores - Experts lead you through step-by-step
activities at home that will increase your child's test scores. For
K-6 national standardized tests - IQ's, and IOWA's.
- CGI Parent
Newsletters - these provided to classroom teachers to be sent home
with children during the schoolyear. They were timed to coincide with
lessons going on in the classrooms, and are available here for parents
- Chart Jungle - Printable
charts, for baby, preschool, kindergarten, and other children. Charts
include chores, awards, education, potty training, behavior.
- Does your child dislike
school? - Practical tips for parents of children who dislike school
from a family therapist and a teacher.
- Education
K-12 - Help your child succeed in school. Simple ideas that can
boost your child's grades.
- Education
- K-12 Articles Index - The number one concern of many parents who
visit KidSource OnLine is how to help their children do better in school.
These articles do just that. They are focused on specific subjects,
skills or lessons for children in grades K through 12.
- eSCORE.com - Online learning
resource for personalized developmental and educational information
and products for parents and children.
- Great Sites
- Recommends sites for preschool-elementary age children and their parents.
Created by librarians who work with children and the Web every day.
- Help Excel Testing - Suspect
your child has a learning disability? Get a complete educational check-up
with a composite of tests developed by educators, doctors, psychologists.
Get report emailed with suggestions for improvement.
- Helping
Your Child Learn History - with activities for children aged 4 through
11
- Hoagie's Gifted Page - A useful
resource for parents of children classified as "gifted". Includes a
number of links to other, related pages.
- How to
choose a musical instrument for your child - A step by step tutorial
on choosing the best instrument for your child, this site either leads
the parent through the decision making process quickly or provides resources
to make a thoroughly considered decision. The site includes interactive
questionnaires.
- Jump
Start Your Child's Education - Advice and activities on how to jump
start your child's education.
- Jumpstart for
Parents - internet safety, financial aid,general resources, parenting
organizations...
- KidSource OnLine - KidSource
OnLine--The web source for in-depth and timely education and healthcare
information that will make a difference in the lives of parents and
their children.
- Mathematics
for Parents - Discusses the importance of parental involvement in
children's math homework; includes tips and questionnaire for parents.
- Mrs. Alphabet - All you
ever wanted to know about teaching the alphabet, phonics, reading, writing,
spelling, and math for children 3-7. Free newsletter.
- National Parent Information Network
- Provides access to research-based information about the process of
parenting and about family involvement in education.
- Parent involvement:
Literature Review and Database of Promising Practices - Promising
programs to increase the quantity and quality of family involvement
in schools. From the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory.
- Parental
Involvement - Part 1 - Under the Elementary and Secondary Education
Act (ESEA), Title I, Part A has been restructured to serve as a means
for helping all students to achieve challenging academic standards.
To accomplish this objective, the Act promotes the formation of new
partnerships, particularly home-school partnerships, to help address
more completely the full range of student needs that impact on their
learning.
- Parents as
Educators - Discussion board, run by two Australian special education
teachers, established to promote debate and discussion about issues
related to children's education.
- Patchogue-Medford Congress of Teachers
- This award winning site presented by a local teachers' union offers
advice to parents, commentary on current educational issues, and an
interactive survey. Updated every month except August.
- Planetpals - An Educational
and intercative resource on the Earth. Designed especially for kids.
- Public School Parents Network
- A network, guide and information source to assist parents of public
school students. Addressing issues from academic achievement and homework
help to bullying, and violence in public schools.
- Raven Days - Resources for
the parent whose child or teen is being bullied at school.
- Reading
to Children is Essential - Fact sheet from the Ohio State University
Extension on the importance of books in early childhood.
- Robyn's Nest - An
Online Parenting Site - 101 words to encourage a child. Print it
and use them daily.
- School Essentials
for Parents at DiscoverySchool.com - Offers practical advice to
parents who are about to make the choice of type of education for their
children.
- Succeed to Read - Resources
for parents and teachers to help a child learn to read, combining phonic,
whole language methods, games, and an alphabet chart.
- Village.com's Parent
Soup's Education Central - From preschool to elementary, middle
to high school and onto college: Find expert advice, articles, message
boards, and chats to help your children excel at every stage.
- Waiting?
Have Some Family Fun Times - Strategies from Ohio State University
Extension to make the best of otherwise boring times like waiting in
line at the grocery store, long car trips, or waiting for an appointment.
- Your Child's
Brain: The Crucial First Years - An Ohio State University Extension
fact sheet on the topic.
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