The ruMAD? (are you Making a Difference?) program encourages, educates and empowers young people to enact social change within their school and community. The authors use case studies involving two schools in highly disadvantaged areas of Australia to discuss the effectiveness of the program.

Many books and articles have been written about a Response to Intervention (RtI) model of service delivery for students who are struggling learners. However, little has been written about this model's usefulness as a means of addressing the needs of advanced learners or twice-exceptional learners whose needs may be both remedial and advanced. The…

Debates about decentralisation, involving questions such as who should make decisions about public schooling and who should pay for it [Caillods, F., 1999. Preface. In: McGinn, N., Welsh, T. (Eds.), Decentralization of Education: Why, When, What and How? UNESCO, Paris] have permeated and affected educational planning in the last 20 or so years.…

This report traces the history and contributions of California's cooperative nursery schools (co-ops) within the context of the national growth in preschools. From the late 1870s through the 1920s, Froebel's ideas regarding the education of young children were evident in early nursery schools. By the late 1920s, nursery schools generally followed…

This book offers a comprehensive history of the parent cooperative preschool movement, a unique educational system that attained its peak in the 1950s and 1960s. The book uses interviews with pioneers and current members of parent cooperatives, official documents, periodicals, and scholarly publications to offer a history that weaves the…

The article discusses the involvement of parents in the clinical assessment of children's academic learning problems. (DLS)

Presents guidelines for involving parents in their children's reading development and offers suggestions for effective parent workshops. (JMB)

Described is a playground designed by an architectural student and built by parents of elementary school students in Kansas for a total cost of $50. (IM)

Suggestions in the areas of structure, completion of tasks, and new learning are given to help parents of learning disabled children modify the home situation. (JYC)

Parents' rights in decision making may not be exercised for many reasons, including: (1) lack of parental preparation for participation; (2) inappropriate behavior by school personnel; and (3) lack of parental interest or devaluation of their own participation. Issues influencing parental participation including limited self-confidence and lack of…

Tips for the teacher on how to establish rapport with parents are given. (DB)

General premises and specific steps in developing a successful consultation program for parents of gifted students are identifed. Procedures begin with defining specific outcomes for each session and culminate in conducting follow-through and follow-up evaluations. (CL)

Points out the importance of play for child development and indicates characteristics of effective adult participation in children's play settings. (Author/RH)

Observed the philosophies-in-action of new versus experienced parent volunteers in a community of learners elementary school, examining three philosophies-in-action: collaborating with students, directing them, and treating them in a laissez-faire fashion. Newcomers were more likely to apply a one-sided philosophy-in-action, while experienced…