Describes the effects of elementary curriculum materials using instant photography developed for the Polaroid Education Project. The materials most effectively reached students who do not respond to verbal materials. Students and teachers shared authority in interpreting student photographs. Photography activities increased parent interest and…

Parents at a North Carolina high school were surveyed about their general confidence in the school, their opinions about the importance of specific school functions, and their confidence in these functions. These responses were correlated to measures of their willingness to be involved in the school. (SJL)

Improvement of a school's discipline program can begin with the opinion inventories published by the National Study of School Evaluation. Once teachers, students, and parents have assessed strengths and weaknesses, an appropriate plan can be chosen. This article outlines five approaches. (WD)

Results indicated that parent attitudes varied significantly according to attendance or nonattendance at the parent education meeting and were directly related to relative level of parents' intentions to support educational programs for gifted students. (Author/SB)

Urges that schools mount public relations programs that emphasize the accomplishments of the schools and give brief accounts of some successful programs. (IRT)

Looks at evaluations of the program to frame a discussion of the troubled history of Head Start and its current favored position. (IRT)

P.L. 94-142 mandates that parents have the right to be actively involved in their children's individualized education programs. Personnel of the Exemplary Service Project at the Exceptional Child Center, Utah State University, have found that, to make a parent part of his child's planning and implementation team, the school staff must provide…

In 1974, the federal court in Boston ordered busing and a massive effort to accelerate the pace of academic progress in the Boston schools. Included in the order was the creation of twenty-two magnet schools and an unprecedented level of parent participation with the vehicles to make it possible. (JOW)

The authors present a model of parent-school involvement in furthering the educational development of gifted students. The disadvantages and advantages of three counseling approaches are pointed out--parent centered approach, school centered approach, and the partnership approach. (SBH)

The article reviews assumptions concerning parental roles in education of handicapped children and presents a parent career education program model. (PHR)

The principal of P.S. 84 in New York City recounts how his school has, with the aid of parents, managed to change and implement open education while suffering from staff cuts and other consequences of reduced funding. (IRT)

The author reviews the development of a parents' group at the Bradford Grange School (Manchester, United Kingdom) for ESN (educationally subnormal) children. Problems with the initial parents' group are pointed out, successful approaches are considered, and the importance of parent involvement is stressed. (SBH)

The head of a residential school suggests some methods for involving parents in educational therapy. (SBH)

Provides ideas for involving fathers in a day care center along with samples of activities and experiments in science and mathematics and in a "Science and Math Fair." (MP)

Uses the authors' experiences in Texas to suggest some strategies that teachers and parents can use to affect the state legislative process. (MP)