PTA Releases Fourteen Videos To Explain Common Core To Parents
Learning First shared that the National PTA has released fourteen videos explaining Common Core to parents. You can find them all here. I’m adding this info to The Best Resources For Talking To Parents About The Common Core Standards. Here’s one of them:
“Want More Kids to Graduate? Report Suggests Starting with Mom and Dad”
Want More Kids to Graduate? Report Suggests Starting with Mom and Dad is the headline of a post over at Education Week. Here are a some excerpts: A new report released today by the Foundation for Child Development and CLASP, a Washington think tank, finds that although parents’ education has a huge effect on their children’s future health and educational attainment, there are very few programs foc
7-20-14 Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement"
Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement": Odd Question: Are Parents “Assets Or Liabilities”?John Merrow, who produces education-related segments for the PBS News Hour, recently published a post about parent engagement titled Assets or Liabilities? Though certainly there are teachers who are not very positive about working with parents, my suspicion is that they are