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The Partnership for Family Involvement in Education
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202-8173
Web site: http://pfie.ed.gov/

The Partnership for Family Involvement is a partnership of over 4,400 members of school, business, religious, and community organizations that come together to increase opportunities for families to be more involved in their children's learning at school and at home, and to use family-school-community partnerships to strengthen schools and improve student achievement.

Goals 2000 Parent Information Resource Centers
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
Web site: www.thefamilyworks.org/Partners/G2KPIRC.htm

Goals 2000 Parent Information Resource Centers provide support to increase parents' knowledge of and confidence in parenting activities that promote early learning. The Centers also strengthen partnerships between parents and schools to meet the education needs of children. There is one center in every State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Pacific Island outlying areas.

Office of Special Education Programs U.S. Department of Education
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
Web site: www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/OSEP/index.html

The Office of Special Education Programs provides leadership and assistance to State and local efforts to educate children with disabilities to improve results for those children and ensure equal protection under the law. Its programs assist public agencies to provide all infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities with early intervention services and a free appropriate public education which emphasizes challenging standards and access to the general curriculum to the extent appropriate. The Office of Special Education Programs funds 70 Parent Training and Information Projects across the 50 states to help parents of children with disabilities. To get a copy of A Directory of Parent Training and Information Projects and further information, telephone the National Information Center for Children & Youth with Disabilities at 1-800-695-0285.

Reaching All Families: Creating Family-Friendly Schools.
This publication presents accumulated knowledge and fresh ideas on school outreach strategies to reach out to all families and help get them involved in their children's education.

Keeping Schools Open as Community Learning Centers:
Extending Learning in a Safe, Drug-free Environment Before and After School.
This guidebook is designed to help schools and community-based organizations begin the process of keeping schools open for children and families beyond the traditional school hours to provide access to valuable education resources in a building free of violence and drugs.

Employers, Families and Education.
This publication explores the benefits of family-friendly policies for employers and employees focused on educational activities for children.

Strong Families, Strong Schools: Building Community Partnerships for Learning.
This report summarizes 30 years of research showing that greater family involvement in children's learning is crucial to providing a good education and a safe, disciplined learning environment for every student. The report, released as part of the Partnership for Family Involvement in Education, suggests what schools, communities, businesses, government, and families themselves can do to strengthen family involvement in children's learning.

America Goes Back to School Partners' Activity Guide.
This publication encourages parents, citizens, and all Americans to rally around their local schools and make a commitment to support education improvement throughout the year.

Brochures on Family Involvement

• Team Up for Kids! How Schools Can Support Family Involvement in Education

• Get Involved! How Parents and Families Can Help Their Children Do Better in School

• Be Family-Friendly: It's Good Business!

• Join Together for Kids! How Communities Can Support Family Involvement in Education

• Summer Home Learning Recipes. Developed by the Home and School Institute, these four brochures contain reading, writing, math, and science activities that parents can do with their children by age groups.

• Preparing Your Child for College. This resource book is designed to help students, their parents, and others prepare academically and financially for college.

• Getting Ready for College Early. This booklet is designed to help parents and students in the middle and junior high school years understand the steps needed to get ready for college.

The following are available through the National Library of Education at 1-800-424-1616.

• Overcoming Barriers to Family Involvement in Title I Schools: Report to Congress, February 1997.

• Family Involvement in Children's Education: Successful Local Approaches: An Idea Book, June 1997.

• Learning Partners Series.

• Helping Your Child Series, including:
  • Helping Your Child Learn Math

  • Helping Your Child Become a Reader

  • Helping Your Child Learn Science

  • Helping Your Child Learn History

  • Helping Your Child Get Ready for School

  • Helping Your Child Use the Library

  • Como Ayudar a su Hijos a Usar la Biblioteca

  • Helping Your Child with Homework

  • Helping Your Child Succeed in School

At this Web site, you will find a collection of materials for parents and parent educators, monthly news for parents, information about the Parenting Discussion List (listserv), and instructions for using Parents' AskERIC, a component of the award-winning AskERIC project, which responds to e-mail questions on child development, child care, parenting, and child rearing.

Family Education Network
http://www.familyeducation.com/

At this Web site, you will find information about learning at home and at school; links to school Web sites and other related sites; updates on education-related legislation; numerous activities and tips for parents; and a forum for discussion of related topics.

The Picture Reading Literacy System
http://busboy.sped.ukans.edu/pix_lit/

The Picture Reading Literacy System is based on extensive research designed to address the critical questions needed to develop and implement a recombinative picture reading system.

Betty Phillips Center for Parenthood Education
Peabody College of Vanderbilt University
Box 81
Nashville, TN 37203
Phone: (615) 322-8080
Web site: www.vanderbilt.edu/

Family Geography Challenge
National Geographic Society
1145 17th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 828-6686
Web site: http://www2.hawaii.edu/hga/Family/Family.html

Families and Work Institute
330 Seventh Avenue, 14th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Phone: (212) 465-2044
http://www.familiesandworkinst.org

HIPPY USA
Teachers College, Columbia University
Box 113
525 West 120th Street
New York, NY 10027
Phone: (212) 678-3500
Web site: www.hippyusa.org/

Institute for Responsive Education
Northeastern University
50 Nightingale Hall
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: (617) 373-2595
Web site: http://www.responsiveeducation.org/

MegaSkills Education Center
The Home and School Institute
1500 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 466-3633
Web site: http://www.megaskillshsi.org

Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF)
Community Education and Public Policy
634 South Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90014
Phone: (213) 629-0839
Web site: www.maldef.org/

National Association for Partners in Education
901 North Pitt Street, Suite 320
Alexandria, VA 22314
Web site: http://www.napehq.org/

National Association of School Psychologists
4340 East West Highway, Suite 402
Bethesda, MD 20814
Phone: (301) 657-0270
Web site: http://www.nasponline.org/

National Black Child Development Institute
1023 15th Street NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 387-1281
Web site: http://www.nbcdi.org/

National Center for Family Literacy
Waterfront Plaza
325 West Main Street, Suite 200
Louisville, KY 40202-4251
Phone: (502) 584-1133
E-mail: ncfl@aol.com
Web site: www.famlit.org/

The National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education
1201 16th Street NW
Box 39
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 822-8405
Web site: http://www.ncpie.org

National Network of Partnership-2000 Schools
Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships
Johns Hopkins University
3505 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Phone: (410) 516-8818
Web site: http://www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000

The National PTA
330 North Wabash Avenue, Suite 2100
Chicago, IL 60611-3690
Phone: (312) 670-6782
Web site: http://www.pta.org

National Urban League
500 East 62nd Street
New York, NY 10021
Phone: 1-888-326-9688
Web site: http://www.nul.org

Parents as Teachers National Center
10176 Corporate Square Drive, Suite 230
St. Louis, MO 63132
Phone: (314) 432-4330
Web site: http://www.patnc.org

Bamber, Chrissie, Nancy Berla, and Anne T. Henderson.

1997. Learning From Others: Good Programs and Successful Campaigns. Washington, DC: Center for Law and Education and the Academy for Educational Development.

Coleman, Mick.

July 1997. "Families and Schools: In Search of Common Ground". Young Children, vol. 52, no. 5:14-21.

Dietz, Michael J., ed.

1997. School, Family, and Community: Techniques and Models for Successful Collaboration. Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen Publications.

Epstein, Joyce L. May

1995. School, Family, Community Partnerships: Caring for the Children We Share. Phi Delta Kappan, vol. 77, no. 9: 701-12.

Harvard Education Newsletter.

September-October 1997. Special Issue on Parent Involvement. Cambridge, MA (1-800-513-0763).
www.edletter.org/

Henderson, A.

1987. The Evidence Continues to Grow: Parent Involvement Improves Student Achievement. Washington, DC: National Committee for Citizens in Education.

Rich, Dorothy.

1997. MegaSkills: Building Children's Achievement for the Information Age. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

1994. The New MegaSkills Bond. Washington, DC: Dorothy Rich Associates.

1997. What Do We Say: What Do We Do?: Vital Solutions for Children's Educational Success. New York: Forge.

1997. What Do I Say? What Do I Do? Problem Solving Handbook. Washington, DC: Home and School Institute.

Struck, Darla, ed.

1995. Involving Parents in Education. Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen Publications.

Warner, Carolyn with Marily Curry.

1997. Everybody's House -- The Schoolhouse: Best Techniques for Connecting Home, School, and Community. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

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