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Cheryl van Tilburg's List: Parental Involvement in Education
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Apr 10, 08
Harvard Professor Elmore says that the structure of school leadership needs to change to enable all students to meet higher standards.\n
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Mar 22, 08
Great resource for information on how parents can play a meaningful role in school improvement programs.
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Aug 31, 08
Parents have to step up and demand more -- from both their children, and their schools. So says Daniel Akst in this thought-provoking Wall Street Journal column.
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But my impression is that many prosperous parents pay mere lip service to education. A study of elementary-school families last year in the Quarterly Journal of Economics bears this out. Researchers at Brigham Young and the University of Michigan found that parents preferred teachers who make their children happy over those who emphasize academic achievement. My experience in a nonobsessive school district is consistent with this. Our family's intense focus on learning is regarded warily by some parents, whose dissatisfactions with school are mostly about testing and creativity but never about a lack of foreign-language instruction or overall academic rigor. Indeed, teachers have reported watering down the public middle-school curriculum in response to parental complaints that it was too difficult.
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May 29, 06
The National Network of Partnership Schools at Johns Hopkins University brings together schools, districts, and states committed to developing excellent school-family-community partnership programs.
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May 25, 06
How does your school do when it comes to involvement parents in a meaningful way? Project Appleseed has checklists you can use to gage how well a school engages parents as partners in the education of children.
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Oct 18, 08
A good PowerPoint presentation that explains many of the tactics schools use to avoid making changes. Parents encounter everything from the "You are the only person to complain" argument (triangulation) to the "Ignore them long enough and they'll go away" strategy. This presentations outlines anti-change excuses used by schools, and explains ways to confront them.
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Dec 09, 08
"Parents: Demand that your children learn. Ask to see their homework, and if they have none, call their teachers to ask why. Find out what your child's teacher is teaching, how she teaches it and how you can help. Make your child's teacher accountable to you" (advice from Ashley Heard, a teacher in Washington, D.C.).
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Jan 28, 09
Nevada's state university chancellor blasts parents for allowing the public school system to become a disaster.
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Feb 02, 09
Parental advocacy meets the internet. The results are good.
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Feb 09, 09
Scott McLeod ponders the recent WaPo article on parental involvement using online tools. He notes that it's an issue most administrators probably haven't given much thought. How true!
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Feb 17, 09
good article (hat tip: Viki Z.)
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May 21, 09
Description of mandated Community Education Councils, which are like PACs....
These groups have an advisory roll as well as actual decision-making power.
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