New Web Site Seeks To Help Parents Make the Home-School Connection

A new venture from a Boston-based publishing company seeks to explore the World Wide Webs potential for giving time-pressed parents information and tools to become more involved in their childrens education.

The Family Education Network, a for-profit membership organization from the Educational Publishing Group, went on-line this month.

It seeks to stand out from scores of other parent-related Web sites by offering families "trusted, credible resources," said its president, Jonathan Carson, at a Washington kickoff event attended by U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W....