Involving Parents in Children's Education: Lessons from Project Follow Through.

Autor/in	Ford, Wendy W.
Institution	Pittsburgh Univ., PA. Learning Research and Development Center.
Titel	Involving Parents in Children's Education: Lessons from Project Follow Through.
Quelle	(1979), (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Educational Change; Low Income Groups; Lower Class Parents; Parent Associations; Parent Participation; Parent School Relationship; Parent Student Relationship; Parent Teacher Cooperation; Primary Education; Teacher Aides; Volunteers + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsreform; Elternvertretung; Elternmitwirkung; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung; Parent teacher relation; Parent-teacher cooperation; Parent-teacher relation; Parent-teacher relationship; Parent teacher relationship; Eltern-Lehrer-Beziehung; Primarbereich; Handreichung; Lehrerhilfe; Freiwilliger
Abstract	This paper describes the parental involvement component of Project Follow Through, a Federally funded program designed to follow up on the children who had participated in Project Head Start. Comments and impressions gathered from interviews with teachers, parents and administrators in school districts that were linked to one Follow Through sponsor, the University of Pittsburgh, are presented. Increased parent participation is evaluated and the problems of adjustment faced by both teachers and parents are discussed. Parents, it is said, reported positive results, including a greater understanding of their children's behavior. Furthermore, political involvement by parents is said to have been successful in obtaining continued funding for Project Follow Through. Mechanisms by which parents can be further involved in their children's educational activities are outlined. (Author/APM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC