Education Research Report provides a pretty interesting summary of a study done analyzing what actually happens in parent-teacher conferences.
Check-out “In Parent-Teacher Conferences, It’s Often Not About the Student.”
Monthly Archives: September 2010
“School centers help parents help kids”
School centers help parents help kids is an article in the Atlanta Constitution about the expansion of parent centers in schools.
I’m not “sold” on the value of these kinds of centers. It seems to me the resources used would be generally better spent supporting school staff going out to the community listening to and talking with parents, and that if parents need a space to meet, there would generally be other multi-use space available at a school. However, if schools are in communities where there are not alternative places where parents can use computers, I could see some value in them.
But I may be missing something. Are there parent centers at your school that you believe effectively support parent engagement?
My New Piece In The Washington Post: “Why Paying Parents To Attend School Events Is Wrong”
Valerie Strauss has just published my latest Washington Post guest column: “Why paying parents to attend school events is wrong”
It’s a commentary on new programs being started by some Districts to pay parents to attend parent-teacher conferences.