Dorothy Rich; educator advocated for parents - The Boston Globe:
"WASHINGTON - Dorothy Rich, an educator, author, and lecturer who became one of the nation’s best known and most persistent advocates for mobilizing parents’ interest in their children’s education, died of cancer Oct. 25 at her home in Washington. She was 77.
Parental involvement in the education of school-age children is largely taken for granted. But it was not so when Dr. Rich was a teacher working in New York and Arlington, Va., in the late 1950s and early 1960s. During her teacher training, the word parent was not even mentioned, she once said.
Besides attending PTA meetings, making brownies for bake sales, offering clerical help, and pushing children to do homework, parents were told to keep out of their children’s schooling, she said."
"WASHINGTON - Dorothy Rich, an educator, author, and lecturer who became one of the nation’s best known and most persistent advocates for mobilizing parents’ interest in their children’s education, died of cancer Oct. 25 at her home in Washington. She was 77.
Parental involvement in the education of school-age children is largely taken for granted. But it was not so when Dr. Rich was a teacher working in New York and Arlington, Va., in the late 1950s and early 1960s. During her teacher training, the word parent was not even mentioned, she once said.
Besides attending PTA meetings, making brownies for bake sales, offering clerical help, and pushing children to do homework, parents were told to keep out of their children’s schooling, she said."
