The involvement of 1,000 parents of gifted and talented children in the educational system was studied in New York and Cleveland. A questionnaire determined their involvement in 27 selected service, financial, and parent education practices. Contrary to some expectations, these parents were not very involved in school activities. (SLD)

Suggestions are presented for encouraging even "busy" families to attend parent-teacher association and school meetings in such areas as meeting times, recruitment efforts, time commitments, access to meetings, meeting efficiency, and meeting topics. (CB)

Videotaped interactions between both parents and one adolescent from 54 two-children families. Parents and adolescents viewed tapes and rated themselves and other family members on anxiety, involvement, dominance, and friendliness. Adolescents rated family members as more anxious, less involved and less dominant than did parents, and were rated as…

The authors argue that the home economics curriculum should be designed to help students deal with the conflicting values of family and career, which the authors see as a major force behind gender discrimination and inequality of the sexes. (CH)

The concept of a new family coordinator (someone to orient new families to the local 4-H programs and serve as a contact person for them) is examined. The training of this coordinator, the "New Family Handbook," and benefits of this new system are discussed. (CT)

Discusses rationale for and provides examples of marine education programs that reflect the varies learning styles, rates, levels, agendas, and interests of families, enabling them to share experiences, knowledge, skills, and feelings. Includes a list of observations made while videotaping families during aquarium visits. (JN)

The article discusses six needs fundamental to research and intervention with families: (1) defensible rationale for family involvement, (2) caution in defining desired family outcomes, (3) developmental perspective, (4) ecological contexts, (5) allowance in variability in family composition or structure, and (6) adequate systems for assessing…

The author maintains that middle level teachers can create curriculum connections that engage families in their children's learning and strengthen the home-school relationship. This article offers four examples of school-initiated partnerships, each of which connects students with their families. These are: (1) the Relative Letter, in which…

During the past several years, the topic of how to increase parent and family involvement in schools has been the subject of many research studies, articles, and speeches. It is likely that every school in the country devotes some portion of its annual plan to explaining how it will increase parent involvement. Yet as widely used as this term is,…

Investigates the nature of verbal interaction and interpersonal influence operating within families as they select television programs for group viewing in their homes. Interaction structure, ability to express a preference, preference consensus, and perceptions of influence reveal differential success in gaining access to favored programs. (JMF)

Through developing a way to assess quantitatively family interaction by examining activities in the family, relations between family interaction, and certain characteristics of the family environment were investigated. Identified significant relations that existed between total interaction and those activities categorized as social, eating, and…

Gathered data from institutionalized and community-dwelling elderly concerning their satisfaction with various aspects of family relations. While 80 percent of the sample were satisfied, differences were found between the young-old and the old-old, the married and the widowed, as well as between the institutionalized and community-dwelling…

Response prevention treatment was used at home, with parents acting as therapists, to eliminate ritualistic behavior in an eight-year-old girl. (MP)

Arguments for an education voucher proposal are presented with particular application to California, which is experiencing a rapid shift from public to private schools. (JMF)

This is the report of a study to determine if there is a model for measuring commitment to a job in a job-family trade-off context. Two crucial variables are discussed and a measurement scale is developed for each. (Author/SA)