A Call to Commitment:
Fathers' Involvement in Children's Learning

U.S. Department of Education
and
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This document was prepared by the National Center for Fathering
under contract ED-99-PO-3558 to the U.S. Department of Education.

This report does not necessarily reflect the position of the Department of Education,
and no official endorsement by the Department should be inferred.

Richard W. Riley
U.S. Secretary of Education

Donna E. Shalala
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services

June 2000

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