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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

A story on the power of parents as teachers - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

A story on the power of parents as teachers - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

A story on the power of parents as teachers

Here is the second installment in a series called “Faces of Learning,” a national campaign designed to explore what powerful learning environments and highly effective teachers really look like.

Last week I published the first, a personal education story by Ohio school principal George Wood that spoke to the power of a single teacher when the conditions are right for a student to learn.

The following is a story by Pedro Noguera, an education professor at New York University, about the power of parents as teachers. His story is entitled “My Parents, My Teachers.”

The Faces of Learning campaign is designed to answer the following questions: How do people learn? How do I learn? What does the ideal