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Family Involvement in Children's Education - October 1997

Research and Development Centers

Many studies on family involvement in education have been sponsored by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, especially through the OERI Research and Development Centers. These centers conduct five-year programs of studies on various important topics in education. Some centers have focused on studies of family involvement and related issues. The most recent include:

Center on Families, Communities, Schools, and Children's Learning. Headquartered at Boston University (BU) between 1990 and 1995, this center was co-directed by Don Davies at BU and Joyce Epstein at Johns Hopkins University. Its mission focused on producing new and useful knowledge about how families, schools, and communities influence student motivation, learning, and development. More than 50 reports, guidebooks, classroom materials, videos, surveys, and other products by center researchers are now available to assist researchers, educators, families, and others.

Contact:

Diane Diggs
Publications Department
Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships
Johns Hopkins University
3505 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Telephone: (410) 516-8808
Fax: (410) 516-8890

Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships. This center at Johns Hopkins University, directed by Joyce Epstein, is a successor to the above center at Boston University. Its mission is to increase understanding of partnership practices that help children succeed at all grade levels and in all types of settings. This center is funded in part through the current OERI-funded Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk (CRESPAR) at Johns Hopkins University. Projects of CRESPAR and the center include the development of research on the National Network of Partnership-2000 Schools. The Network guides school, district, and state leaders and teams of educators, parents, and others to improve school, family, and community partnerships. Other studies focus on the effects of partnerships on students, families, and schools, and the development of pre-service, in-service, and advanced courses in partnerships for teachers and administrators.

Contact:

Karen Clark Salinas
Communications Director
Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships
Johns Hopkins University
3505 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Telephone: (410) 516-8808
Fax: (410) 516-8890

Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence. This center at the University of California, Santa Cruz, opened in 1996 and has a program of studies on family, peers, and community. The studies include those with a focus on: (1) coordinating family, peers, school, and community during early adolescence, and (2) immigrant parents' computer literacy, as it relates to student learning.

Contact:

Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence
1156 High Street
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Telephone: (408) 459-3500
Fax: (408) 459-3502
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