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Dear FINE Member,

Here are this month's FINE member announcements. Please feel free to forward this information to friends and other education colleagues.

New on the FINE Website

• Research Digest: Engaging Parents in an Urban Public High School: A Case Study of Boston Arts Academy

  Monique Ouimette, Jay Feldman, and Rosann Tung study an urban public school that successfully engages parents by offering a variety of school-based activities, a welcoming environment, and frequent communication between staff and parents.

• Updated Research Digest: Working With Families in the Rural South: Findings From the REA-Funded Promising Readers Program

  Teresa Jayroe and Devon Brenner provide an update on an after school and summer literacy program taught by parents and preservice teachers in an African-American elementary school in the rural south.

• Member Insight: Are Schools Doing Enough to Learn About Families?

  In her answer to this question, Janice Kroeger, Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education and Teaching, Leadership, and Curriculum Studies at Kent State University, conveys that schools need to better understand and accommodate the diverse needs of families in order to involve them in their children’s education.

• Appendix C: Research and Evaluation of FAST

  A new appendix has been added to the case study of Families and Schools Together (FAST) in FINE's Concepts and Models of Family Involvement publication. The appendix provides up-to-date information on evaluations of FAST sites and projects.

Books and Reports

• Readiness: School, Family, and Community Connections

  The fourth annual research synthesis from the National Center for Family and Community Connections With Schools of the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory looks at 48 research studies on contextual factors associated with children's school readiness. The report also discusses the effectiveness of a variety of early childhood or preschool interventions that include a family or community focus.

• Parent Involvement in Education (Acrobat file)

  As part of the New Deal for Communities (NDC), a U.K. neighborhood renewal initiative, three local NDC partners have implemented city-wide, school-based parent involvement programs. This report provides case studies of each parent involvement program and looks at outcomes, impact, and challenges.

• Sourcebook of Family Theory and Research

  Sponsored by the National Council on Family Relations, the Sourcebook of Family Theory and Research is a reference work for family researchers focusing on the processes behind theory development and research design. It is available for purchase from the publisher at the link above.

• All Work and No Play?: Listening to What Kids and Parents Really Want From Out-of-School Time

  Public Agenda surveyed students and parents about their attitudes toward after school activities and programs. Although the majority of both kids and parents highly value participation in organized out-of-school activities, low-income and minority parents point out the lack of high quality, convenient, and affordable after school activities and programs in their communities. Surprisingly, academics was low on the list of things parents look for in their child's out-of-school activities.

Evaluation

• Randomized Trial of a Parent Intervention: Parents Can Make a Difference in Long-Term Adolescent Risk Behaviors, Perceptions, and Knowledge

  This study explores the added effects of a parental monitoring intervention (Informed Parents and Children Together) for youth who receive an adolescent risk-reduction intervention (Focus on Kids). Six of 16 risk behaviors were significantly reduced among youth receiving the parental monitoring intervention compared with youth who only received the risk-reduction intervention.

Events

• Emerging Scholarship in Urban Education Conference

  This conference sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Urban Education of City University of New York (CUNY) includes panels and presentations related to family involvement in education. The conference is Saturday, December 11, 2004, at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City.

• Family-School-Community Partnership: Interrelation Between Family and Education Merging Into Social Development

  This is the European Research Network About Parents in Education's (ERNAPE) fifth international conference. ERNAPE is a network of researchers who study the relationship of parents to school systems and the contributions that parents and families make to their child's learning outside school. The conference will bring together scholars from many countries to share international research and practice on family-school-community partnerships. Submissions for proposals are currently being accepted. The conference will be held September 14–16, 2005, in Oviedo, Spain.

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