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Thursday, April 24, 2014

4-24-14 Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement"

Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement":







The Best Posts On Involving Fathers In Schools

The topic of increasing the involvement of fathers in schools has been garnering some attention lately, and I thought I’d bring together some of the previous posts on the topic together. I was prompted to do so by today’s article in The Washington Post, Schools roll out the red carpet for dads who volunteer. Coincidentally, I believe tonight’s #PTchat on Twitter was on this same subject, and I’ll


4-22-14 Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement"
Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement": inBloom Officially Folds, Blaming Everybody But Itself & Its Funders For FailureI’ve chronicled the ongoing fiasco of the Gates Foundation-founded-and-financed inBloom student data-vacuuming service called inBloom (see The Best Posts On The inBloom Data Fiasco). As usual, these guys never bothered asking parents and tea