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The Harvard Family Research Project separated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education to become the Global Family Research Project as of January 1, 2017. It is no longer affiliated with Harvard University.
March 18, 2008
The Peninsula, a daily newspaper in Qatar, covered Heather Weiss' keynote address at the Supreme Education Council's annual symposium, "Parents: Partners in Education."
Excerpt from the article:
"'The US research on parent involvement suggests that there are three particularly important aspects of parent involvement for children's development and academic success. The first aspect is parenting – the attitudes, values, and interactions about learning that parents demonstrate as they raise their children. The second is parent involvement in home-school relationships – the formal and informal connections, communications, and partnerships with the child's school and teachers. The third aspect is a sense of shard responsibility for learning outcomes-parents as well as the school take responsibility for the child's learning and education', [Weiss] said.
"On the early learning, Dr Weiss said, children's vocabularies increases rapidly, and they acquire the ability to remember experiences, sustain attention, count and recognize letters. Through interactions with adults and peers, they develop self-concepts and self-esteem, improve emotional self-regulation. In this stage of a child's life, nurturing, warm and responsive parent-child relationships and parental participation in child-centered activities."