Conditional Cash Transfers are payments made to families to encourage them to do things like go to doctor appointments, and to children for increased school attendance and higher standardized test scores, and have been in the news lately. I’ve published a number of posts about them, and I thought readers might find it helpful if […]
I’ve posted — critically — several times about the use of what are called “conditional cash transfers” here in the United States. These are payments made to families to encourage them to do things like go to doctor appointments, and to children for increased school attendance and higher standardized test scores. Newsweek has just published […]
We’re all going to be hearing a lot more about “Conditional Cash Transfers” (CCT’s) as a “poverty-fighting” tool. In fact, this past week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke at a big conference in New York about them. If you don’t know what they are, I’ll share more about them in a moment. I personally […]
Here are my choices for the best posts I’ve written on parent engagement in 2014 since June (by the way, you can find all my “The Best…” lists related to parent engagement here, including My Best Posts On Parent Engagement In 2014 – So Far): Ridiculous British Rules On Parents Taking Kids Out Of School […]
I’ve previously published several posts on this blog about the concept of Conditional Cash Transfers, which are basically programs that provide money to low-income families to “incentivize” certain behaviors. As I shared in those previous posts, I’m all for getting more money into the hands of low-income people and, though I think there are more […]
Since I have published so many “The Best…” lists, I thought it might be helpful to readers if I posted a few year-end collections. Here is A Collection Of “The Best…” Lists On Parent Engagement — 2011: The Best Ideas On How Parents Can Help Their Kids Succeed Academically “The Best Research Available On Parent […]
I’ve posted a lot about good parent engagement/involvement ideas, but sometimes you can learn just as much from looking at bad examples. You can see lots of good ideas at all my parent engagement-related “The Best” lists here. Here are my choices for The Worst Parent Engagement Ideas: Putting Parents in Charge is a condescending […]
One Delaware School District wants to use a portion of their Race To The Top monies to pay parents to come to certain school events. Bad idea. Very bad idea. New York City Mayor Bloomberg recently closed down an effort that including paying parents to do the same thing. New York City had started a […]
I began my Engaging Parents In School blog about a year ago to support the publication of my book, Building Parent Engagement In Schools. I’ve written many posts over the past twelve months, and I thought readers might find it useful to see a list of which ones have been “clicked-on” the most: Here, in […]
Last September, I wrote a post titled Conditional Cash Transfers, Parents, And Schools. It talked about a new program that was becoming fashionable called conditional cash transfers. These are payments made to families to encourage them to do things like go to doctor appointments, and to children for increased school attendance and higher standardized test […]
I began this blog seven months ago — it was timed with the publication of my book, Building Parent Engagement In Schools. I thought it might be useful to share — in order of popularity — which posts have been “clicked-on” most over the past six months. Here are My Most Popular Posts On Parent […]
I’ve been doing a lot of work this year on building parent engagement in schools, including having a book published (Building Parent Engagement In Schools) and starting a new blog called Engaging Parents In School. Plus, I continuing to do the usual work at our school of actually engaging parents, too! I thought readers of […]