Here’s an excerpt from an interesting new study on parents and homework (you can read more about it here): Parents who want to improve their child’s motivation to complete homework this school year need to change their own attitude and behavior, according to a new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers. In [...]
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The Center For Public Education just released a short report titled Back to school: How parent involvement affects student achievement. There doesn’t appear to be anything new in it, but it seems to be a decent summary of research that has been done. You can also read a Reno newspaper article that relates what the [...]
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A judge has blocked Alabama’s awful immigration law while he takes time to consider it more carefully. I’ve previously posted about the law’s impact on schools and parent engagement — see “Students’ Immigration Status To Be Coded With “0″ or “1″ in Ala.”
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What’s really wrong with ‘parent trigger’ laws is the title of my newest piece in The Washington Post. It’s a revised version of a post from my other blog, Engaging Parents In School.
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Get Along With Every Parent is an article from Scholastic that has some decent advice to teachers. Thanks to Lorna Costantini for the tip.
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Parents, teachers tout classroom councils to boost engagement is an article about how a Chicago Head Start center is engaging parents. The exact model is probably not practical in many or most classrooms, but it’s just another way of looking at parents as “co-educators.”
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A Principal’s Map For Parent Involvement is a useful post in Chris Wejr’s blog. In it, a parent recommends how a principal could develop a parent involvement plan.
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“But What If I Don’t Know English?” is another great resource from Colorin Colorado. It shares ideas on how parents who don’t speak English can still help their children develop literacy skills.
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How to Reach Out to Parents of ELLs is an article from Colorin Colorado that offers some useful advice. And, while you’re at it, you might want to look at all the other terrific resources they have on their site….
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I just discovered that Education Week has a “Parent Involvement” page where they collect all their related articles. It’s worth periodically visiting…
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“Teachers make summer house calls” is the headline of an article in an Omaha newspaper last month. It’s worth checking-out….
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I often disagree with The Washington Post’s education writer Jay Mathews, but I think he’s generally pretty thoughtful. In the past week or so, though, he’s written a couple of columns where I’ve heartily agreed with his main idea. At the same time, though, some of his reasoning has been completely off-base. I’ve already written [...]
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Census: Parents Reading More With Their Children is a new Education Week article that includes useful research that teachers might want to share with parents. It could be used to help parents see what are some good ways they could interact with their children to encourage learning.
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9 Great Articles on Parent Engagement in Education is a collection of recent blog posts, including ones from several bloggers I respect, on…parent engagement/involvement. I can’t vouch for the quality of all of them, but many are worth reading….
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The Parent Trigger: A Positive Step or a Distraction for Improving Our Public Schools? is a point/counterpoint four-day discussion being published at a site called Public Sector Inc. It still has two more days to go, so it might be worth checking out….
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Chicago Community Group Breaks Down Home-School Barriers is an Education Week article about the impressive work of the Logan Square Neighborhood Association. It’s a pretty extensive article.
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No conflict for Patricia Rucker is a parent-trigger related post at Thoughts On Public Education. I found the comments particularly interesting…
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This week there have been two articles/posts published sharing critiques of the parent trigger law. Once came from Washington Post reporter Jay Mathews, who wrote Why parents can’t save schools. The other piece was in Thoughts On Public Education and shared quotes from a number trigger critics and advocates. Several perspectives in that article and [...]
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Education must spread beyond school is the headline of a Financial Times article discussing a New Zealand study on the topic, an international survey, and parent involvement efforts in the Middle East. If you click on the link, you may or may not be prompted to register on the site for free in order to [...]
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Danville school’s teachers visit families’ homes is a nice article about what teachers are doing in an Illinois town. You can see previous posts about teacher home visits here.
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