Useful New “Family Engagement Brief”
The National Center For Families Learning has just published a useful “Family Engagement Brief.” I don’t think people familiar with parent engagement research will find anything new in it, but it provides a well-written and concise review of research on the topic, along with providing some case studies. I’m adding it to “The Best Research Available On Parent Engagement.”
Interesting Discussion: “Should parents have a say in curriculum?”
Chalkbeat, an education new site, has published Chalkbeat Roundtable: Should parents have a say in curriculum? Interesting question, and good guests there respond to it.
“Why ‘parental involvement’ is not a ‘broken compass.’”
I’ve written a couple of posts skeptical of claims made by authors of a new book on parent involvement called The Broken Compass, with the most recent one about their op-ed piece in The New York Times on Sunday. Inflated Research Claims Can Harm Children: Why “parental involvement” is not a “broken compass.” is a post by Marilyn Price-Mitchell that is similarly skeptical. And respected parent eng
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Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement": “More than 20% of [British] parents say they have been fined for unauthorised holidays”More than 20% of parents say they have been fined for unauthorised holidays is the headline of an article in the British newspaper The Guardian. Here’s how it starts: More than 20% of parents say they have been fined for taking their chil