Browse this list for the best and latest in publications from the US Department of Education, specially-selected titles related to Title 1 and School Improvement concerns. Titles can be ordered on-line or from 1-877-4-ED-PUBS, Fax: 1-301-470-1244. Some titles can be downloaded from the website as indicated.
Getting A Good Start In School: The National Education Goals Panel Offers information on the readiness goal of the National Education Goals. Suggests that events in the early years make a crucial difference to school success. It concludes with a list of publications on readiness, developed for parents, educators, and policymakers. 01/01/1997
Helping Your Child Succeed In School Provides parents with basic information on factors related to school success and a series of activities they can do with their children to help them succeed in school. This booklet is part of the Helping Your Child series, which addresses ways parents can help schools meet the National Education Goals. 10/01/1996. MIS 96-6554
Helping Your Child Get Ready for School Offers ways that parents can help their preschool children grow, develop, and have fun learning. This booklet is part of the Helping Your Child series, which addresses ways parents can help schools meet the National Education Goals. 10/01/1992. MIS 96-6558
Checkpoints for Progress: In Reading and Writing for Families and Communities Provides developmental milestones for children and adolescents from birth through grade 12 and explains what most children will be able to read and write within those milestone periods. Directed toward parents and community members, this booklet outlines requisite skills, suggests books for each age group to read, and offers strategies and resources that parents can use to assist their children. 02/17/1998. www.ed.gov/pubs/CheckFamilies/
NAEP Facts: 1998 Reading Results for Low-Performing Students: Vol. 4, No. 4, May 2000 Provides information from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 1998 Reading Assessment for low-performing students, defined for NAEP's purposes as students in grades 4, 8, and 12 who fall in the 10th and 25th percentiles. This publication includes tables showing comparisons of 1998 scores with 1992 and 1994 scores, for low-performing students at each grade level. It also contains tables showing scores for middle- and performing students for 1992, 1994, and 1998. 05/22/2000. Education ID: NCES 2000-501.
[Spanish] Alianza de familias y escuelas [Families and Schools as Partners, Mini-Booklet] Provides an overview of the advantages gained for children's education when families and schools work together as partners. This mini-booklet reviews children's and parents' rights relating to education; explains how parental involvement helps children do better at school; and, outlines guidelines for parents to follow when visiting their children's school. Basic rights are also noted, including that all children have a right to free public education without discrimination because of race, color, national origin, sex, disability or age. 07/05/2000
Guide to Improving Parenting Education in Even Start Family Literacy Provides a framework and suggestions for strengthening the quality and impact of parenting education services in Even Start programs. This guide provides a content framework for parenting education in Even Start, illustrative practices for putting the content framework into action, and suggestions for measuring parenting education outcomes. 10/23/2000
Reading: Know What Works Offers a checklist to help teachers and principals recognize at a glance the key characteristics of quality reading programs that have been identified by the National Research Council. This guide contains best practices with the kinds of behaviors, activities, and instruction that ensure children learn to read. 11/20/2000
New Teachers for a New Century: The Future of Early Childhood Professional Preparation Provides critiques of contemporary practice in early childhood education and offers challenges for the field in preparing the next generation of early childhood educators. This report examines the nature and content of current early childhood professional preparation programs at the pre-service level and provides a comprehensive description of what constitutes high quality early childhood professional preparation. 03/24/2000. Education ID: ECI 2000-9038.
Exemplary & Promising Mathematics Programs 1999 [Flyer] Advertises a
print and online publication that describes the U. S. Department of Education's
Expert Panel System and the criteria used to evaluate mathematics materials.
This flyer lists the topics addressed in the publication and explains how the
publication can be accessed. 04/27/2000.
www.enc.org/ed/exemplary
Title I Services for Private School Students Under the Reauthorization of ESEA: A Snapshot of Federal Assistance in Transition: Final Report 1998 Summarizes findings from surveys of Title I district administrators and private school representatives regarding the provision of Title I services to eligible private school students. This report includes information on the procedures that districts use to count the number of low-income students enrolled in private schools; Title I program services available to private school students; resource allocations, including the use of capital expense funds; and student assessment and program evaluation. 09/01/1998
New Skills for New Schools: Preparing Teachers in Family Involvement
Provides a comprehensive training framework to guide educators in their efforts
to improve teacher training in the critical area of family involvement. This
publication was produced by the U. S. Department of Education's Partnership
for Family Involvement in Education initiative. 10/15/1997.
www.ed.gov/pubs/NewSkills
Religious Organizations: Come Together for Kids Encourages religious communities to join others in providing parents, grandparents, foster parents, guardians, or extended family members with the information, skills, tools, and opportunities that will promote their participation in the total education of children. 06/22/1998. Fax Back: 001070 To obtain a copy via fax back service, call 1-877-4-ED-PUBS
Family Involvement in Education: A National Portrait Showcases findings from a new analysis of data from Family Involvement in Education: A National Portrait. This publication includes a checklist for parents to assess their own school on issues of family involvement. 10/01/1998. www.stw.ed.gov/products/1464/1464.htm Alternative source: GPO 1-888-293-6498 at order number 065-000-01218-0 for $3.25.
Partners for Learning: Preparing Teachers to Involve Families: Teacher.
. . Preparation Kit Contains presentation materials on preparing teachers for
family involvement in education. This CD-ROM includes: speaker's notes and overheads
in Microsoft PowerPoint 7.0; QuickTime video clip from a teleconference hosted
by Vice President Al Gore and U. S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley;
and an HTML publication with examples of effective practice. 11/19/1998.
www.ed.gov/pubs/PFIE/epkit/intro.html
Corporate Imperative: A Business Guide for Implementing Strategic Education
Partnerships: Partnership for Family Involvement in Education [PFIE] Assesses
your company's current business-education partnerships and determines the extent
to which they are linked to key business and school objectives. This guide focuses
evaluating educational approaches and outcome of programs, practices, and policies
designed to meet business and school concerns. It is designed for use by human
resource staff members, community relations practitioners, administrators, education
managers, and training and organizational development staff. 04/28/1999
Vamos Juntos a la Escuela [video kit]
Offers tips for Spanish-speaking parents to help them become involved in their children's learning, from infancy through adolescence. This video kit includes: video featuring real-life vignettes of Latino parents and families dealing with topics such as reading, mathematics, and college preparation; Las Preguntas que Hacen Los Padres Sobre La Escuela booklet; Servicios e Informacion Sobre la Educacion brochure; and, America Vuelve a la Escuela brochure. This kit can be used in schools, community-based organizations, and homes. 03/30/2000
Call to Commitment: Fathers' Involvement in Children's Learning [PFIE]
Promotes and celebrates fathers' increased participation in children's learning.
This publication describes research on the benefits of family involvement and
includes: how fathers' involvement in learning contributes to student educational
success, a discussion of strategies for improving and extending fathers' involvement
in their children's education, and provides examples of programs that involve
fathers in children's learning. A list of organizational and Internet resources
and a Partnership for Family Involvement in Education fact sheet are included.
07/12/2000.
www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/fathers/fathers.pdf
Read With Me: A Guide for Student Volunteers Starting Early Childhood
Literacy Programs Discusses the Harvard Emerging Literacy Project, which places
undergraduate literacy volunteers in Head Start classrooms in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
This booklet also provides guidelines for starting such a project, including
understanding basic principles, taking advantage of school resources, training,
recruiting volunteers, and working with communities. It then presents a summary
of recent brain research and discussions of the role families and communities
play, children in poverty, and why young children need help. A checklist and
descriptions of literacy groups, college-based programs, early childhood literacy
materials, and Internet resources are attached. 09/01/1997. ECI 97-9017r.
www.ed.gov/pubs/ReadWithMe/
Learning Partners: Let's Use the Library! Provides information that parents can use to help their children use the library. This guide includes a description of library materials and programs and suggests how to make the library beneficial to children. It is part of the Learning Partners series, which offers activities for parents and caregivers to use with children in preschool through sixth grade to help them do well in school. 09/01/1996. www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/LearnPtnrs/library.html
Grants Catalog - Promising Initiatives to Improve Education in Your
Community: A Guide to Selected U.S. Department of Education Grant Programs and
Funding Opportunities, 2000 Presents detailed information on selected grant
initiatives and highlights resources available from the U.S. Department of Education
to help schools, colleges, and communities with pressing education issues. This
guide provides an update of funding opportunities and includes contact information
for each program. A brief description of exemplary programs is included. 02/22/2000.
www.ed.gov/inits/FY2000/index.html
Compact for Reading Guide [Set of 5 Books] Leads your family-school compact team through the steps of building and implementing a Compact for Reading. This guide provides information, strategies, examples, and checklists to help parents, educators, and community members develop effective, workable compacts that can improve your school, increase family involvement, and increase student skills and achievement in reading. It is intended to help and guide partnerships in forming compacts, without adding requirements. 02/01/1999. www.ed.gov/pubs/CompactforReading/content.html. Alternate source: Little Planet Publishing 1-888-974-2248 (approx. $20 per copy).
Bringing Education into the Afterschool Hours [PFIE] Provides schools
with ideas on how they can use their afterschool program in new and effective
ways to promote student achievement and meet the needs of their students and
community. This publication covers the following topics relating to afterschool
programs: reading, mathematics, think college early, teacher recruitment and
training, the arts, strong, safe, disciplines, and drug-free schools, and parent
involvement. 07/01/1999.
www.ed.gov/pubs/After_School_Programs/
Longitudinal Evaluation of School Change and Performance [LESCP] in Title I Schools: Interim Report to Congress Describes the purposes and design of the Longitudinal Evaluation of School Change and Performance (LESCP) study. This publication presents highlights of its findings to date that measure changes over time in selected students, classrooms, and schools participating in Title I. The LESCP's research questions focus on curriculum and instruction, student performance, and the effects of the 1994 Title I amendments. 07/01/1999