“Parents still struggling for a seat at the table”

The Notebook, an excellent education publication in Philadelphia, has been reprinting their favorite pieces from past years.

One is particularly good: Parents still struggling for a seat at the table.

Here’s how it begins:

“Profound parent involvement means sharing leadership – and that means sharing knowledge, responsibility, and most difficult of all, power. This is anything but simple.”

In this statement, longtime education activist Rochelle Nichols Solomon describes the core of an ongoing struggle to create more meaningful roles for parents in schools.

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