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Better Education Is Everybody?s Business!

July 2000

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Table of Contents

• Better Education Is Everybody?s Business!

• It?s a fact! Family involvement contributes to children?s academic success

• Recent research

• According to teachers

• According to parents

• Who is responsible for maximizing children?s learning?

• Barriers to family involvement.in education

• Solutions to barriers to family involvement in education

• Who we are

• How we are organized

• Partners' pledges

• What the Partnership for Family Involvement does

• The benefits of joining the Partnership

• How we achieve our goals

• Partners and partner groups.work with these groups

• What partners do in the Partnership

• What partners do in the Partnership (continued)

• The spectrum of partner involvement in education

• PFIE goal: Increase opportunities.for families to be more involved in.their children?s education

• PFIE goal: Promote children?s learning and achievement

• ?How-To? resources available from the Partnership for Family Involvement

• ?How-To? resources available.from the Partnership for Family Involvement (continued)

• How to access resources from.the Department of Education

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