Obama Administration Announces Together for Tomorrow is the headline of a press release just issued by the U.S. Department of Education. I’m including some excerpts from the press release at the end of this post. After reading it, I still don’t really have a clue what they’re talking about — except that it has to […]
Parent trigger not on the top of parent-involvement expert’s list of best practices is the headline of a column at the Tampa Bay newspaper in Florida (where an attempt is being made to pass a trigger law). It quotes parent involvement researcher Joyce Epstein, who says: “That would not be first on our list of […]
Bad idea to grade parents is the headline on a Florida newspaper columnists piece published yesterday. It refers to the….bad idea I posted about a couple of days ago.
I still feel very confident in saying that the “parent trigger” is pretty much dead in terms of having any kind of real influence in the education policy debate, but it does seem to appear to have some dying breathes left. You can read about them here: Adelanto school is targeted in second test of […]
Pinellas school district tries going to parents is an article about staff from a Florida school making home visits. Generally, I don’t recommend going unannounced, but if a school widely publicizes it throughout the neighborhood and most parents know they’re going to happen on a particular Saturday it can usually work out fine. It sounds […]
There is a substantial amount of research available on parent engagement/involvement, and I thought bringing together a few of the best resources would be useful. You can also see all my parent engagement-related “The Best” lists here. Here are my picks for The Best Research Available On Parent Engagement: The Harvard Family Research Project has […]
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 […]
Post Rank uses a variety of ways to measure level of “engagement” that readers have with specific blog posts. I have a constantly updated “widget” on my blog’s sidebar that lists these posts, but I thought a quarterly post would be helpful/interesting to subscribers who don’t regularly visit the blog itself. Here’s a listing of […]
Over the past two years, I have posted: My Best Posts On Building Parent Engagement In Schools — 2010 My Best Posts On Parent Engagement Over The Past Six Months My Best Posts & Articles About Building Parent Engagement In Schools — 2009 My Best Posts On Parent Engagement So Far This Year It’s been […]
Lorna Costantini, the primary organizer behind the great blog and webcast series “Parents As Partners,” has graciously invited me to be the guest on their webcast this coming Monday. We’ll be discussing the “parent trigger” and the recent Florida proposal to have teachers “grade” parents. In addition, I’ll give a preview of two articles I’ve […]
Sherman Dorn, a Florida professor who always writes thoughtful posts, pushed back on my post, If It Quacks Like A Duck — Thoughts On The “Parent Trigger.” In his response, he writes that my same arguments could be used to oppose letting workers vote for a union through the “card check” process. In that situation, […]
Valerie Strauss at the Washington Post weighed in today on the crazy proposal in Florida to have teachers grade parents of their students. Here’s a great excerpt from her piece, titled Legislation: Teachers should grade parents: Requiring teachers to grade parents is a nutty idea. Some parents work two or three jobs and can’t be […]
Lee Kolbert has written a satirical post on the grading parents proposal I’ve been writing about over the last few days. Check out My Thoughts and Predictions on Grading Parents.
I use PostRank to determine the most popular posts from my blog, Engaging Parents In School, and post a list every quarter. This quarter, PostRank is acting a little strange, so I’m just going to use the number of “hits” on posts to determine this quarter’s ranking. You might also be interested in these collections: […]
Yesterday, I posted about a Florida legislator’s proposal to have teachers grade parents. Late last year, I wrote about a Michigan prosecutors plan to jail parents who didn’t attend parent-teacher conferences. Now, an Indiana legislator wants parents to perform community service if their child misbehaves in school, apparently targeting instances of bullying. I’ll admit that […]
A summary of a research report titled “School Staff Perceptions Of Parental Involvement” was recently published in Data Trends. The Research and Training Center at Portland State University collaborates with the Research and Training Center at the University of South Florida to produce Data Trends, ” a series of briefs addressing current themes, summarizing recent […]