William Hill is executive director of Rocketship Public Schools Tennessee. “It’s a great school. They have really involved parents.” That’s a comment I’m sure many of you have heard or said to ...

Public policy must enable parents and community leaders to serve their schools, districts, and community more efficiently and effectively. Parents are the most important teachers of values to their ...

Family-engagement practitioners and researchers say educators are adopting systemic and sustained efforts to integrate parents into the fabric of their schools—a welcome shift for advocates who have ...

Corrected: This story has been updated to correct information about Parents Defending Education’s role in political campaigns. The organization does not endorse candidates. The Biden administration on ...

For decades now, communities, educators, policymakers, civil rights activists, philanthropic organizations, and others have launched numerous efforts to bring about improvement in our public schools.

One of the upsides of the country’s forced march into virtual learning was the increased level of parent engagement in their children’s education, much of it out of necessity. Parents, who prior to ...

With the onset of COVID-19, parents have stepped-up and continued to play an active role in their children’s daily education activities. Teachers, schools, and districts have put their best foot ...

In a first-grade classroom, teachers hand out alphabet letters printed on yellow paper and call out a word for everyone to spell. “Your first word is ‘any,’ ” a teacher announces. Scrambled piles of ...

Parent engagement is critical to a thriving school community--here's how to make it a long-term success Parent-school relationships have always been a vital part of student success, but the importance ...

Parents who are immigrants understand the importance of education, but are often labeled as parents who don’t hold their children to high standards, according to Emily Francis, a high school ESL ...

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This story features Beeline Reader for enhanced readability. Click to turn the feature on or off. Learn more about this technology here. Just getting to the first day of school feels like an ...