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PART
1 (35:00)
PART
2 (15:00)
recorded 11/9/99
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1 |
THE
JUGGLING ACT: SCHOOL, WORKING PARENTS
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It's
4 o'clock. Do you know where your PARENTS are? Sure - they're
at work. The reality is that most parents of school-age children
work. Where does that leave kids? Have schools taken on an additional
role?
On this edition of The Merrow Report, John Merrow talks with Ellen
Galinsky, President of the Families
and Work Institute and author of Ask the Children: What
America's Children Really Think About Working Parents, and
Laurence Steinberg,
Professor of Psychology at Temple
University and author of Beyond the Classroom. |
| Part
2 |
REMEMBER
THE CHILDREN:
A REPORT ABOUT CHILD CARE AND WELFARE REFORM |
In 1996,
major welfare reform legislation sent single mothers on welfare
back into the work force. As a result, about one million additional
children have entered child care programs. Are these children
better off in their new day care settings?
On this edition
of The Merrow Report, Bruce
Fuller from the University of California, Berkeley, PACE,
reports the findings of a recent study that examined the quality
of child care programs in California, Connecticut and Florida. |
| Part
1
THE
JUGGLING ACT: SCHOOL, WORKING PARENTS
WEB
SITES
For
Parents:
Public
Agenda
"Parents Playing Their Parts: Parents and Teachers Talk About
Parental Involvement in Public Schools."
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| FACTS
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Over
22 million school-age children
(62 percent) have working parents.
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Violent juvenile crime triples during hours of 3pm and 8pm.
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Children spend more of their discretionary time watching television
than any other activity. Television viewing accounted for 25 percent
of children's discretionary time in 1997, or 14 hours per week
on average.
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An estimated 35 percent of 12-year-olds care for themselves regularly
during after-school hours when their parents are working. |
RELATED
ARTICLE
"Problems
in Childcare Found to Persist," by Linda Jacobson, Education
Week, 2/9/00.
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