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2003-03-19 Good Parent-Teacher Relationship Benefits Children
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Children are the benefactors when parents and teachers communicate. Both parents and teachers have insights to the child, and sharing this information can yield solutions to problems that arise at school. This article provides parents reasons for building a good relationship with teachers and ways to get involved in elementary, middle, and high schools.
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2003-03-04 Overcoming the Obstacle Course: Teenage Boys and Reading
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Connecting boys with books and reading requires librarians and teacher-librarians to examine their assumptions and expectations. Young
adult services specialists Patrick Jones and Dawn Fiorelli examine the research into boys’ reading and non-reading habits, and offer concrete and practical advice for making that connection. Suggestions include reviewing
the library’s collection and the young adult area within the library to assess guy-friendliness. Includes a list of professional resources to help
teacher-librarians, and a list of “sure-thing” titles for boys in middle
school.
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http://www.teacherlibrarian.com/pages/30_3_feature.html
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2003-02-05 How do Children Spend their Time?
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Studies show that children are spending more time at schoolwork, at sports, and even at housework, and less time playing, watching TV and eating. RFor study results, read the brief published by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
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http://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/cpr/dbs/pubs/ti11.pdf
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2003-01-28 Family Literacy: A Strategy for Educational Improvement
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By educating two generations at once, family literacy programs help tomorrow's parents break the cycle of low literacy and poverty for generations to come. Read research by the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL), published November 8, 2002 by the National Governors Association.
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http://www.famlit.org/announcements/ngabrief110802.pdf
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2001-10-13 The Importance of Fathers in Promoting School Success
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The role mothers play in promoting literacy is well documented: after all, the best predictor of a child's future reading success is the literacy level of the mother. But did you know that a father's involvement plays a key role in a child's future school success? It has been shown that fathers' involvement is school is associated with a higher likelihood of students getting mostly A's. And fathers' involvement also seems to lessen the likelihood of a child repeating a grade. More…
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