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| The Parents Guide to the Internet is intended to help parents - regardless of your level of technological know-how--make use of the on-line world as an important educational tool. The guide gives parents an introduction to the Internet and suggests how parents can allow their children to tap into the wonders of the Internet while safeguarding them from its potential hazards. |
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Website managed by the BCPS Office of Library Information Services. Included are: Links to outstanding
Internet websites from local, state, and national agencies;
(See library media specialist
for your school's password and logon directions for these databases.) |
Electric Library, a fee-based database of full text magazine
and newspaper articles for which students and parents have remote
access - use from home.
Literatue Resource Center, a fee-based database
relating to authors and literary criticism.
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Websites for Parents |
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Are you a student in Baltimore County working on homework after school? Then click on the logo above and you can chat live with a librarian online at AskUsNow! |
 Curriculum Parent Summaries - Revised Summaries coming soon! Outline of what students are expected to learn and be able to do in all subject areas. |
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| Celebrating All of Us a joint project created by the parent of a Baltimore County elementary school student who happens to have Down syndrome, a Baltimore County Schools physical therapist and a Montgomery County elementary special educator. The project has compiled literature-based resources for parents and educators to use in an effort to build friendships and enhance the inclusion of young children with disabilities in their neighborhood schools and communities through similarities awareness. The goal is to ensure that classrooms, schools, teachers, communities, parents and children are, indeed, celebrating all of us! |
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 U.S. Department of Education administers the Partnership and offers resources, ideas, funding, and conferences relevant to family involvement in education. Check out the full text of 38 publications for parents, communities, and schools. Some titles include the following: A Compact for Learning: An Action Handbook for Family-School- Community Partnerships; A Compact for Reading Guide; Family Involvement in Children's Education: Successful Local Approaches; Get Involved! How Parents and Families Can HelpTheir Children Do Better in School; Getting Ready for College Early; Keeping Schools Open as Community Learning Centers: Extending Learning in a Safe, Drug-Free Environment Before andAfter School; Questions Parents Ask About Schools; Strong Families, Strong Schools; Summer Home Learning Recipes, and others. |
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| The Learning Partners Series consists of a number of fliers released by the National Institute on Student Achievement, Curriculum, and Assessment and the National Institute on the Education of At-Risk Students for use in school newsletters to parents and for parent conferences. | |
| Moving
America to the Head of the Class: 50 Simple Things You Can Do
Brochure that lists simple things parents, employers, teachers, and others can do to help America reach the National Education Goals by the Year 2000. |
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| Creating an Atmosphere
for Learning at Home This advice was compiled for parents and teachers who are working together to teach children - from pre-school to high school that learning is for life! |
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Financial Aid Sources Provides general information about the U.S. Department of Education's federal student financial aid programs. |
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National
Parent Teacher Association
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| KidSource
Online: Education Articles Excellent websites on "how to" help your children do better in school. Articles are focused on specific subjects, skills or lessons for children in grades K-12. |
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| Parent Resources from the National Education Association | |
| Connect
for Kids An award-winning multimedia project of the Benton foundation, helps adults make their communities better places for families and children. The Web site offers a place on the Internet for adults-parents, grandparents, educators, policymakers and others-who want to become more active citizens, from volunteering to voting with kids in mind. |
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| 700+
Great Sites Compiled by the American Library Association, this website provides an amazing array of valuable web sites for students, parents, and teachers. |
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| Homework
Helpers by B.J. Pinchbeck Links to websites to help your child with homework in art, computer science and Internet, current events, English, foreign languages, health and P.E., history, math, music, science, social studies. Also, includes links to search engines and reference sources. |
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| Homework
Central by BigChalk.com Megasite of links to websites to help your child with homework in all subject areas. |
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Our goal is to provide parents with information that will help you with your child's success. Send your suggestions to Della Curtis, Coordinator, Office of Library Information Services. Created July 2001 |