Fathers and Education
- Back to School (15)
- Working with Teachers (3)
- Homework Resources (8)
- Homeschool Resources (1)
- Colleges and Dads (13)
- Teaching About Science (7)
Dads and Back to School Preparation
What every father needs to know to help get the kids ready for going back to school.
How a Father Can Help Children Succeed at School
Fathers play an important role in a child's education. The things a father does with his children can help them achieve success, or may discourage them from educational achievement.
How Was School Today?
Probably the single most popular topic of conversation at home is what the kids did at school. It is a question parents ask and kids hate. Find out how to better talk with your children about their school day.
Talking to Your Children About Grades
Dealing with your children’s grades can be tough. Finding out that they are low is one thing; finding out why is something different. And children can feel inappropriately pressured to achieve good grades if fathers don’t handle this well. Learn some basic principles for talking with your children about their grades so you can get results without undue pressure.
Getting Involved at Your Child’s School
It’s not just belonging to the PTA any more. Fathers are taking a more active role in the education of their children and in the governance of local schools. Find out more about how you can successfully get involved in your child’s education at home and at school.
A Father's Commitment to Life Long Reading
Helping your child become and remain a capable, life-long reader is one of the best things you can do as a dad long-term. Find out ways that dads help their children learn to read and to keep reading.
How Fathers Can Help Their Children Read: Middle School and High School Years
Helping your middle school or high school child become and remain a capable, life-long reader is one of the best things you can do as a dad long-term. Find out ways that dads help their children learn to read and to keep reading.
Helping Elementary Age Children Read
Helping your elementary school-aged child become and remain a capable, life-long reader is one of the best things you can do as a dad long-term. Find out ways that dads help their children learn to read and to keep reading.
Helping Your Preschooler Learn to Read
Helping your preschool child become and remain a capable, life-long reader is one of the best things you can do as a dad long-term. Find out ways that dads help their children learn to read and to keep reading.
Teaching Children to Memorize
Memorizing, while sometimes a challenge to both children and adults, is a necessary skill to enhance learning and retention. From poetry to multiplication tables, children who can memorize are miles ahead of those that never learn how. Here are some ideas and tips that will help you teach your children the skills needed to effectively memorize.
Choose a Charter School
More and more states are offering more options for educating our children. Charter schools provide a real choice and are typically either lower cost than private schools and often the same costs as public schools. But how does a dad choose among the charter school options?
How Fathers Can Help Their Children Read
Helping your child become and remain a capable, life-long reader is one of the best things you can do as a dad long-term. Find out ways that dads help their children learn to read and to keep reading.
Involving Fathers at School
This page from the Teachers First web site offers examples of programs in public education that are successfully involving fathers. From math to reading to father training, you can see the types of programs that are offered and what they do for the kids of the involved dads.
Fathers in Schools: How Dads Make a Difference
Here are ways to help fathers connect with the educational system and their kids--more than just the traditional back-to-school night and parent-teacher conferences, including books for dads and kids to read together.
Fathers' Involvement in Their Children's Schools
This report commissioned by the National Center for Educational Statistics, details the impact of fathers on their children’s educational setting. You can see what the educational establishment thinks about the role of fathers in public education.
Fathers and Sex Education
How fathers feel about sex education in the schools. The results of a national survey conducted by Zogby International for the Coalition for Adolescent Sexual Health show that fathers strongly support a values based and abstinence based program for teaching their children about sex.
The Good School: How Smart Parents Get Their Kids the Education They Deserve
A review of Peg Tyre's book The Good School: How Smart Parents Get Their Kids the Education They Deserve. This book helps parents know the questions to ask and the things to think about in choosing a school for their children.
How Dads Should React When Their Children Start Middle School
As children grow up and leave elementary school for middle school, the role of their parents have to change too. Find out what a dad with new middle school children needs to know about this transition and how he can adapt and prepare for his role as a middle school father.