Parents ‘failing to get children ready for school’, say heads is an article from the British newspaper The Telegraph. The national principals association and government are cooperating to produce and distribute leaflets to parents giving advice on how they can get their children better ready to learn.

As I’ve said before, written materials like this are only useful if they are used by school staff as excuses to initiate genuine two-way conversations with parents. If they are just passed-out, then they become examples of one-way communications that just end up in the trash.