Emerging Leaders in Family Engagement is the theme of the most recent issue of the Family Involvement Network of Educators. It’s a worth a look.
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Hot on the heels of a Tennessee bill targeting undocumented immigrant students, the North Carolina legislature is considering a bill requiring principals to ask each parent if their child is documented or not. Now, that will really be a tool to encourage parent engagement… The North Carolina bill was also introduced just weeks after federal [...]
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“Complain at school and get a knock on the door” is how a New York Daily News article (Parents say administrators are siccing ACS on them to retaliate for complaints) about parents claiming that if they make a complaint about their school, then the school reports them to child welfare investigators. Of course, there’s no [...]
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Republican Congressman Todd Russell Platts was the leader in getting a House Committee to vote for restoring funding to Parental Information Centers (PIRCs). He’s also a co-sponsor of the Family Engagement in Education Act of 2011. Here’s his official statement in support of parent engagement and the PIRC funding.
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Are Parents Making The Grade?is a good post by Tara Zrinski challenging the perspective that punishing punishments will enhance parent engagement in schools. You can see my previous posts on the same topic here.
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A “Save Our Schools” March is planned for July 30th, and you can read more about it here. Organizers have created this short video titled “Here’s to the Parents!”:
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A House committee voted today to retain funding for the Parental Information & Resource Centers (PIRCs). I haven’t been following this issue that closely, but I have to say that I’m surprised. I’m not sure if the National PTA was the primary lobbying force behind it or not but, if whoever was appears to have [...]
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“Wake up and smell the school cuts: Parents lead a day of rallies to preserve education funding” is a post about parent organizing here in California. Check it out!
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Last week I wrote a post titled “Failing” Parents, which shared a New York Times article about misguided punitive steps to encourage parent involvement/engagement. Since that times, The New York Times Learning Network has invited to students to respond to the question: Whose Fault Is It if a Child Is Failing in School? So far, [...]
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The campaign to use the “parent trigger” law in Compton is now over, and supporters are trying to start a charter school at a local church instead. “Judge to throw out Trigger petitions:Compton parents to open charter nearby” is the title of a post at the Thoughts On Public Education blog that gives an update. [...]
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Working Systemically in Action: Engaging Family & Community is a new book from SEDL, a leader in parent engagement research. You can purchase a hard copy, or you can get a free PDF of it by going to the link. It’s worth a look.
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Teaching the Teachers: Preparing Educators to Engage Families for Student Achievement is a new report from the Harvard Family Research Project and the National PTA on how teacher education programs can better prepare teachers for family engagement. This is how they describe the report: Teaching the Teachers highlights those promising strategies through five case studies, [...]
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Joyce Epstein’s classic book on parent involvement, School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators and Improving Schools, has recently had its second edition published. You can check out its table of contents and other information at that link.
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Union and Parents Join Forces to Improve School Conditions is a nice success story from the National Education Association’s Priority Schools Campaign. It’s worth a visit.
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The New York Times has just published an article on recent efforts by not-particularly-enlightened legislators to “help” students learn by punishing their parents. It’s titled Whose Failing Grade Is It? Here’s a Diane Ravitch quote from the article: That is not surprising, said Diane Ravitch, an education historian and the author of “The Death and [...]
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The NY Times reports that New York City Mayor Bloomberg today complained today about the predominantly minority parents who are fighting against his plan to close twenty-two schools: “Unfortunately there are some parents who just come from — they never had a formal education, and they don’t understand the value of education.” It’s an outrageous [...]
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Making a Strong Home-School Connection by Being Culturally Responsive is from ASCD, and lists twelve helpful hints for educators. It’s written by an elementary school principal.
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Rethinking how to make parents a bigger part of the education equation is the headline of an article about parent involvement in Delaware. It includes a video interview with U.S. Senator Chris Coons from Delaware, explaining why he co-sponsored the Family Engagement in Education Act of 2011.
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Parents For Great Education is a Northern California parents group fighting for additional state funding for education. You can read more about them in today’s post from Thoughts on Public Education, “It’s not business, it’s personal:Bringing the budget cuts home to make them real.”
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“Working with Immigrant, Refugee Students and Families To Help Them Understand School Transportation” is a useful article written by a Maryland family involvement specialist, Young-chan Han. It’s worth a look.
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