Should Parents Have a Voice in Teacher Evaluation? is a pretty thoughtful response by a blogger in Ed Week to a newspaper editorial advocating just that. It’s definitely worth a read….
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The Los Angeles Weekly, a big supporter of the parent trigger law, has just published a story that indicates that parent trigger supporters seem to be going over the edge… In the article, they are not only attacking teachers and their unions, but now they’re attacking…the PTA? Also, Gloria Romero, defeated candidate for State Superintendent [...]
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I’ve previously posted about my deep skepticism about the parent outreach efforts that are being done in Newark with the recent huge grant that was received. Here are some recent articles about the effort that have appeared in the media: A Deeper Look at the Newark, NJ Public Schools and the Zuckerberg Donation by Dana [...]
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In my book, I emphasize the importance of two-way conversation as opposed to the typical one-way communication schools use with parents — calls home to inform parents about problems with their children, notices given to students to carry home, “connect-ed” automated phone calls. Check-out yesterday’s Pearls Before Swine comic strip to get an idea about [...]
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I’m a big advocate of teachers and administrators call parents when kids are doing well — not just when there’s a problem. You can read a post I’ve written titled “Mr. Ferlazzo, I Need My Post-It, Too” to give you one example of the enormous impact a call like that can have on a family. [...]
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Time To Stop the Hypocrisy About Poverty and Education is the title of an excellent post by Renee Moore. You should read the whole post, but here’s an excerpt: I’ve also seen too many educators blaming poor children and their families for not caring about education, while ignoring that those attitudes may in large part [...]
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“Closing Underperforming Schools” is the headline of a piece by Walt Gardner at Ed Week. He recounts the huge recent problems in Boston and Charlotte when schools were closed without parents being involved in the process in any meaningful way. He ends the article this way: The next school district that is forced to make [...]
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Holding on to Parent Voices is the headline of an article in the new issue of District Administration. It provides an in-depth analysis of how parent involvement issues are affected by the Obama Administration’s “Blueprint for Reform,” which lays out general principles for reauthorizing No Child Left Behind. These issues include the proposed elimination of [...]
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Parent ‘Trigger’ Law Draws Attention, Controversy is the headline of a new article in Education Week. It provides a good overview of what’s going on in California, as well as describing which other states are considering implementing similar laws.
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I’ve previously posted about the recent Associated Press poll on education (see “Adults blame parents for education problems” (Interesting Poll, But Can We Stop The Blame Game?). Here’s an interactive visualization of results to the entire poll.
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This is the tenth anniversary Of FINE, the Family Involvement Network of Educators. It comes out of the Harvard Family Research Project. Their most recent newsletter includes: a handful of our favorite FINE resources from the last 10 years, all of which are related to some of the content areas we will be exploring in [...]
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I’ve previously posted about the School Community Journal, an academic journal focusing on school/community connections that comes out twice a year The newest issue has just been published, and it might be worth a look.
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Parent Empowerment or Parent Manipulation? by Martha Infante is a blog post at InterACT, the blog of Accomplished California Teachers (I’m a member of this statewide group). I’ve been writing about the so-called “parent trigger” since October, 2009, and you can see all of my posts on that topic here.
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“LA aims to engage parents in schools with services” is the headline of a new Associated Press article on the reorganization and expansion of a District parent involvement program. Unfortunately, it appears to promote a misguided “If you build it, they will come” model of creating parent centers and coming up with classes that they [...]
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Schwarzenegger’s misleading account of ‘parent trigger’ is the title of Valerie Strauss’ most recent piece in The Washington Post. She refers to the guest post of mine she recently published. The comments are pretty interesting, too.
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Report Advises Schools on How to Relate to Minority Parents is a post from Mary Ann Zehr at Ed Week’s Learning The Language blog. The report has just been published by the National Education Association and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and is definitely worth a look. Mary Ann’s post has all [...]
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Here are a couple of articles on the parent trigger debate that appeared today: N.J. legislator proposes ‘parent trigger’ for failing schools Our lame-duck Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post supporting it.
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Beyond Random Acts: Family, School, and Community Engagement as an Integral Part of Education Reform is a new report issued by the Harvard Family Research Project. This is how they describe it: Beyond Random Acts provides a research-based framing of family engagement; examines the policy levers that can drive change in promoting systemic family, school, [...]
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California Board of Education seeks probe of Compton charter campaign is the headline of a story in the Los Angeles Times this morning. It’s all about the flawed effort to use the flawed “parent trigger” law.
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Linworth Publishing has now activated the free “look inside” feature on Amazon for both of my books. You can search through: English Language Learners: Teaching Strategies that Work Building Parent Engagement In Schools Enjoy!
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