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86% of the general public believes that support from parents is the most important way to improve the schools.
source:
Rose, Gallup, & Elam, 1997
cited by What Research Says About Parent Involvement in Chidrens Education
This is interesting in light of the fact that only 39% of the general public today says that "lack of parental involvement" is the "biggest problem facing schools" - and only 27% say that increased parent involvement is "one or two [of the] best changes to solve public schools' problems."
I wonder if this is a real change, or an artifact of questionnaire design....
Whatever the case, parent involvement is "hot."
National Network of Partnership Schools (Johns Hopkins)
National Standards for Parent/Family Involvement (PTA)
Project Appleseed
2 comments:
parental involvement does not seem to be welcomed in those districts with reform math
some could argue, parental involvement is not welcomed
because the parents are teaching the kids math at home, telling the other parents the kids dont learn at school, and are demanding accountability
or does parental involvment really just mean i have to find that darn cupcake recipe again
since nobody can do anything
*about* "lack of parental involvement",
this doctrine is mighty convenient
for those who would have us do nothing.
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