Survey: More than half of US teachers concerned about language barriers with ESL parents is from Education Dive. Parent Strategies for Improving Their Child’s Reading and Writing is from NWEA. Check out The School Community Journal. How To Make Sure Your Math Anxiety Doesn’t Make Your Kids Hate Math is from NPR. New York City's […]
Districts Turn to Social Media, But Parents Prefer Emails, Calls, and Texts is from Ed Week. Comparing what parents and the public—and Democrats and Republicans—want from schools is from Brookings. Talking with—Not Just to—Kids Powers How They Learn Language is from Scientific American. Back-and-forth exchanges boost children’s brain response to language is from MIT News. […]
I’m trying to clear out a backlog of resources to share before the end of the year. Here are a few final parent engagement ones for 2017: Some LA parents say paperwork and new fees are forcing them to quit volunteering at their schools and jeopardizing extracurricular programs is from the LA Schools Report. It […]
I’ve recently begun publishing a bi-monthly post sharing the most popular posts on parent engagement that I’ve published here. Some may have been published in other months, but still remained popular. Here’s the second edition: 1, A Collection Of “The Best…” Lists On Parent Engagement 2. The Best Resources For Learning About Teacher Home Visits 3. Jeez, What […]
Many residents unaware of changes in education, poll finds is the headline of a San Francisco Chronicle story about the results of a recent statewide poll. Here are a couple of excerpts: California has overhauled how it teaches students, how it tests students and how it funds schools, yet a majority of taxpayers and parents […]
Parents Support Later Start Times for High School is the headline of an article at Scientific American that schools might want to take note of… Here’s how it begins: A new, national survey released by the University of Michigan has found that 50 percent of parents who have teenage children would support later start times […]
NEA Today had an excellent article on the now infamous “Broken Compass” book questioning the value of parent involvement. It quotes Anne Henderson, probably THE parent engagement/involvement expert in the United States. Here’s a portion of what she had to say: Anne T. Henderson, a senior consultant at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform and a […]
Don’t Help Your Kids With Their Homework is the title of an article that appeared a few weeks ago in The Atlantic. It was written by Dana Goldstein. It describes research shared in a new book, The Broken Compass:Parental Involvement With Children’s Education by two professors which, at least according to Dana Goldstein, questions most […]
More than 20% of parents say they have been fined for unauthorised holidays is the headline of an article in the British newspaper The Guardian. Here’s how it starts: More than 20% of parents say they have been fined for taking their children on unauthorised holidays during the school term, while a majority of parents […]
Q & A With Lori Takeuchi: Research Findings From Learning at Home: Families’ Educational Media Use in America is from the Harvard Family Research Project. Here’s the part most useful to educators: How can practitioners support families in selecting and using educational media? We know that teacher endorsements are one of the main ways that […]
Chalkbeat shares highlights from a letter New York City Chancellor Carmen Fariña recently sent to principals. It runs thirteen pages, but this particular excerpt caught my idea. It seems like an interesting idea: At M.S. 319 Maria Teresa in Manhattan, Principal Ysidro Abreu and his parent coordinator host a monthly “Parent Learning Walk.” They start […]
Truancy down when teens eat with parents, says OECD is the headline of an article in the BBC. I think it’s just a different summary of the PISA report I recently posted about — see Two Somewhat Interesting Results From PISA Parent Survey. My post highlights what I think are more useful results from their […]
What Do Parents Want in Their Child’s School? is a good post by Bill Carozza summarizing a semi-recent poll of parents by the Fordham Institute. I had thought I had posted about the survey already, but I couldn’t find it, so I guess I just thought I had…. Of course, I have posted about many […]
Meta Analysis of the Studies of High Performing Family Literacy Programs comes from Toyota Family Literacy Program Research Project, and it looks pretty useful. Here’s a description: The National Center for Families Learning (NCFL) announces the release of Toyota Family Literacy Program Research Project, a meta-analysis of high-performing family literacy programs in a variety of […]
Before creating plan to improve D.C. middle schools, chancellor wants community input is a Washington Post article discussing the D.C. Chancellors efforts at parent involvement — only after receiving substantial political heat to do so. But it doesn’t sound like her heart is really in it: Maury Elementary parent Joe Weedon, who has been active […]
I have an extensive “Best” list at my other blog titled A Very, Very Beginning List Of The Best Resources On Bullying. In addition, I’ve published several posts in this blog about bullying resources specifically for parents, and thought bringing them together in one list would be useful. You can find all my parent “Best” […]
Modern Families: What Educators Need to Know is an article at NEA Today that provides some real-life examples of how today’s families might look a little different from years past. I don’t think many teachers will learn anything they didn’t already know (or should know), but it doesn’t hurt to get a reminder. In a […]
Here are my choices for the best posts I’ve written on parent engagement in 2013 — well, at least since April when I published My Best Posts On Parent Engagement In 2013 — So Far (by the way, you can find all my “The Best…” lists related to parent engagement here): Come On, Now – Schools […]
“Report: Race & Income Play Role In Perception Of Parent Engagement” is an article reporting on a recent Urban League story. The results aren’t surprising, but that doesn’t make it any less discouraging. Here are some excerpts from the article: Race plays a pervasive—and negative—role in perceptions of parent engagement and student achievement, while community-based […]
Do American parents spend too much time volunteering at their kids’ schools? is the title of a recent article in Slate Magazine by Amanda Ripley. I’m no fan of a lot of her writing on education issues, and this article provides more evidence about why I feel that way. She frames her article as an […]