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“Teachers go door-to-door to meet students, parents” | Engaging Parents In School...

“School Plan to Engage Parents Arouses Skepticism” In Chicago The New York Times has just published an article about a new plan by the Chicago School District for parent involvement/engagement. Check out School Plan to Engage Parents Arouses Skepticism.

New York City Schools Gets A New Parent Engagement Chief I’ve posted previously about the absolutely awful job the New York City schools seem to do related to parent involvement/engagement (Does The New York City Dept. Of Ed Have Any Clue What They’re Doing In Parent Engagement? ). Well, this week the new ...

“Teachers go door-to-door to meet students, parents” Teachers go door-to-door to meet students, parents is a nice newspaper article, with photos, from a Kentucky newspaper. As regular readers know, I’ve written a lot — in my book, and in this blog, about teacher home visits — and have also done a lot ...

“The Roles Of Parent & Community Engagement In Student Success” “The Roles Of Parent & Community Engagement In Student Success: Work Works In Illinois” is a new report published by advocates of Community Schools. Even though it’s focused on Illinois, a lot of the info can be applied anywhere.

“‘Just right’ parents and No Child Left Behind” ‘Just right’ parents and No Child Left Behind is a piece in the Washington Post offering some good recommendations on changes that could be made to a new Elementary and Secondary Education Act and increase parent involvement. It’s worth a read.

New York City Parents Sue To Stop Public Subsidy To Private Charter Schools A group of twenty-five New York City parents filed suit today to stop the District from forcing schools to share facilities with charters. It’s all pretty interesting, and you can read about it in The New York Times and at the NYC Public School ...

“Parent trigger rules are, with a nod to Colbert, ‘reforminess’” Parent trigger rules are, with a nod to Colbert, ‘reforminess’ is a good take on the recently-approved California regulations for the Parent Trigger. It’s written by Gary Ravani, vice president of the California Federation of Teachers.