Parent Participation category: 664 books
What's A Parent to Do?
How to Help Your Child Select the Right College
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Each year over a million newly-minted high school graduates enroll in four-year colleges and universities across the country. They do so often after a lengthy and almost always stressful selection process. Faced with growing evidence of declining standards, rising political correctness and spiraling...
Race, Community, and Urban Schools
Partnering with African American Families
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this important book, award-winning author Stuart Greene enters the ongoing conversation about low-income African American families and their role in helping their children flourish. Greene focuses on parents’ self-defined roles within the context of race, urban development, and an economy...
Overcoming the Odds
Raising Academically Successful African American Young Women
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2002
When Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males appeared in 1998, it was hailed as "a crucial book" (Baltimore Sun) and "undoubtedly one of the most important tools the African American parent can possess" (Kweisi Mfume, President NAACP). Now, in response to enormous...
by Kim Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
We all want to do the best for our children and make sure that their school lives are as enjoyable and rewarding as they can be. When your child starts primary school, it can be a very scary time as you wonder whether they will make friends and cope academically.
If you’re feeling confused...
Waldorf Resolutions for the New Year: 10 New Year's Resolutions for a Waldorf Inspired Homeschooling Parent
Waldorf Homeschool Series
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2015
New Year's Resolutions To Keep The Year Through
Short yet effective, these 10 resolutions kept me on point for over 20 years!
This books holds the secrets of a Waldorf-inspired homeschooler who raised three successful, happy and awesome children following Rudolf Steiner's principles...
Parent Involvement
Collaboration Is the Key for Every Child's Success
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
In today’s economy, where getting a good education has never been more important and school resources are stretched beyond points that most of us can remember, it is imperative that parents be fully engaged in their child’s education, both at home and at school. Parents play an integral role regardless...
Bridging The Gap
A Parent's Guide, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Bridging the Gap: A Parent’s Guide proposes an opportunity for parents and educators to work together to help our children gain a better understanding of themselves. The Parent’s Guide is the first of a two-part series. The second part is a guide for educators. The book provides information to...
The Parent-Teacher Partnership
How to Work Together for Student Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
With the National PTA’s Standard for School-Family-Community Partnership as a framework, this guide offers advice for resolving common points of contention between parents and teachers, such as the most productive use of a parentteacher conference, the best at-home environment for doing homework,...
The Everything Parent's Guide to Common Core Math Grades 6-8
Understand the New Math Standards to Help Your Child Learn and Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Take the mystery out of Common Core math!
The Common Core, a new set of national educational standards, has been adopted by forty-five states across the nation. But if you learned math the "old" way, the new teaching methods--like tape diagrams, array models, and number bonds--may be unfamiliar...
The Everything Parent's Guide to Common Core ELA, Grades K-5
Understand the New English Standards to Help Your Child Learn and Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Take the mystery out of Common Core ELA!
Designed to be a set of national educational standards, the Common Core has been adopted by 45 states across the nation. But if you're accustomed to traditional English courses, you may be having a hard time understanding what your kids are bringing...
The Everything Parent's Guide to Common Core Science Grades 6-8
Understand the New Science Standards to Help Your Child Learn and Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Take the mystery out of middle-grade science!
The Common Core, a new set of national educational standards, has been adopted by 45 states across the nation. But if you learned about science the "old" way, you may be having a hard time understanding what your kids are bringing home from school--and...
Success Without College
Why Your Child May Not Have to Go to College Right Now--and May Not Have to Go At All
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2001
If your child seems indecisive about college, don't read the riot act, read this landmark book instead. College is not the only alternative. A New York Times editor and concerned parent tells you why and helps you to find happy alternatives to starting college before your child is ready.
As...
The Handbook for Raising a Smart Kid
7 Easy Steps to Making Your Child Smarter
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Every parent wants the best for their child. To see them flourish and succeed in their future. All great accomplishments that your child has and will do come down to you. In this book, you have the opportunity to journey through seven-steps that will lead to a smarter child. It starts with developing...
Life Under Compulsion
Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
How do you raise a child who can sit with a good book and read? Who is moved by beauty? Who doesn’t have to buy the latest this or that vanity? Who is not bound to the instant urge, wherever it may be found?
As a parent, you’ve probably asked these questions. And now Anthony Esolen provides...