Links
Web sites come and go. Some of those below will already have moved or disappeared without trace. If you find this is the case, please tell us at Parents In Education, so we can amend the information on the site.
Babies and Books: Sites offering information and guidance about books for babies include:
www.literacytrust.org.uk/Research/babiesbooks.html
www.slco.lib.ut.us/Babies99.htm
library.christchurch.org.nz/Services/BooksforBabies/
BBC Education for Parents - information about child development and home learning
Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (Family Literacy section)
Centre for Paired Learning: Read On reading and thinking skills project
Centre for Paired Learning: mathematical Problem-Solving project
Children, Youth & Family Consortium
CEDC, Education Extra & ContinYou
Department for Education & Employment (DfEE) parents' centre website
DfEE Lifelong Learning site has a section devoted to Family Literacy
DfEE Standards: information for parents
Education Online Home Education pages - select Home Education
Family Education - a commercial site, but with some useful content
Family Learning: A survey of current practice (OFSTED)
Families and Schools Together (FAST) FAST is a 2-year primary school based programme to increase parental involvement in education
National Center for Family Literacy
National Educational Research Forum
National Family and Parenting Institute
National Institute for Adult and Continuing Education
National Parent Information Network
The National Parent Teachers Association in the USA
Positive Parenting - a commercial site, but with some useful content
Reaching All Families - reviews a range of programmes for "creating family-friendly schools"
School Psychology Resources for Parents & Family - useful links
UNESCO: Tutoring by peers, family and volunteers
http://www.familyeducation.com/
http://www.parent-education.com/links.html
http://www.schoolsnet.com/ also has a newsletter. If you put in Parents you get 1000 items on all sorts of topics.
More links will be found in past issues of the Newsletter - particularly see the Web News section in each. Obviously, the older the Newsletter, the more likely are the sites to be out of date.
Members' Sites
MegaSkills: The "Inner Engines" of Learning for Success in School and beyond, from the Home and School Institute in Washington DC: www.MegaSkillsHSI.org
Campaign for State Education (CASE)
Gerard Lohan's Home-School-Community Liaison site (Ireland): http://www.gerlohan.com/
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