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The Child Development Project publishes Homeside Activities a seven book set of activities for grades K-6. The activities are designed to give teachers and parents a simple way to build partnerships around children.
Contact Information:

Child Development Project
Development Studies Center
2000 Embarcadero, Suite 305
Oakland, CA 94606

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Partnership for Family Involvement in Education provides resources and supports to organizations and companies interested in building a coalition between schools and their communities.

Contact Information: U.S. Department of Education
600 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
(800)USA-LEARN
http://pfie.ed.gov/

Family Involvement in Children's Education: Successful Local Approaches. An Idea Book offers descriptions of schools and communities who overcame key barriers such as finding time, increasing their information about each other, bridging school-family differences, improving schools, and tapping external supports to strengthen school-family partnerships.

Contact Information: online version: http://www.ed.gov/pubs/FamInvolve/
To order: 877-4ED-PUBS,
Fax: (301) 470-1244
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/edpubs.html

Team Up For Kids!! How Schools Can Support Family Involvement gives strategies for encouraging parent involvement.

Author(s): Partnership for Family Involvement in Education
Contact Information:

Online version: http://www.ed.gov/pubs/PFIE/schools.html
To order: 877-4ED-PUBS,
Fax: (301) 470-1244
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/edpubs.html

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