“Parents Add Heft to Bond, Tax-Measure Campaigns”
Parents Add Heft to Bond, Tax-Measure Campaigns is an Education Week article worth reading. Here’s an excerpt: Though the specifics may differ from community to community, parents throughout the country are increasingly becoming advocates for bond and tax measures needed to fill budget holes and better the quality of schools. Their outreach often goes beyond knocking on doors, posting on Facebook,
“New School Funding Formula Mandates Parental Involvement”
New School Funding Formula Mandates Parental Involvement is an article from Public Radio that points out an important point in California Jerry Brown’s potentially revolutionary new school funding formula — it requires that parents reviews plans to spend the extra money that low-income districts will be receiving. The key, of course, will be if schools take it seriously and view it as an opportuni
“Parental involvement in education leads to successful students, stronger schools”
Parental involvement in education leads to successful students, stronger schools is a few months old, but is still worth reading. It’s a column in the Cleveland Plain Dealer about parent involvement. I’d skip the first part, which is about a charter school and solely focused on test scores. But the last two-thirds of the piece is pretty good.
Quite A Round-Up Of Pre-School Parent Involvement Research
Head Start recently published quite a compilation of recent research related to parent involvement and pre-school youth. I’m adding it to The Best Resources On Pre-School Parent Engagement.
Special Edition Of “Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL”
(I usually just publish one of these posts each week, but I’m trying to get caught-up, so I’m doing two to finish out July) I’ve started a somewhat regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention: The Institute On Community Integration has published a special report on Educating K-12 English La
The Most Important Info On The D.C. Test Score Increase
The media is awash in stories about standardized test score increases in Washington, D.C. As I’ve repeatedly said, I think test scores are useful small parts of a school culture that should be data-informed, not data-driven. The most important part of The Washington Post story on the test scores, though, was buried near the end. Here it is: Some experts cautioned that standardized testing doesn’t
Video: Atul Gawande On The Colbert Report
I’ve previously posted about Atul Gawande’s excellent article in The New Yorker (see If You Want To Influence People To Change, Then You Want To Read Atul Gawande’s New Article). He appeared on The Colbert Report last night, and I’ve embedded the interview below. I don’t think it’s the greatest interview, but I think it is worth skipping to the three minute mark and watching the last part. The C