Making Parent Involvement Meaningful // By Karen Rasmussen A Common Goal. Traditional parent involvement organizations, includingPTAs, ptos, and PTSAs, continue to play important roles in schools. http://www.ascd.org/publications/ed_update/199801/rasmussen.html
Extractions: Making Parent Involvement Meaningful by Karen Rasmussen When Lynn Townsend's daughter was a sophomore at South Laurel High School in London, Ky., she couldn't get into the Latin class she needed to continue her studies from the previous year. Townsend went to the school's open house to learn how to remedy the situation. By the time she left, Townsend had joined the school's committee on restructuring time, which was charged with finding a way to improve teaching and learning at the school. "Parents are equal to teachers and the principal" in the decision-making process, explains Charles Edwards, director of the Division of School-Based Decision Making at the Kentucky Department of Education. Because parents have a stake in what their children learn, they need to have a voice in deciding what is taught and how it is taught, he explains. Townsend thinks that all parents should have the same kind of opportunity as she to contribute to their children's education. "This type of involvement makes you understand what ownership really means," she says. South Laurel High School's principal, Roger Marcum agrees, noting that he has observed throughout his career in education that good principals have always been those who value the input of all stakeholders, including parents. In the past, schools relied on parents primarily to raise money for the school and to bake cookies and cupcakes for school parties, he says. Although these activities have value, Marcum works to convince parents that "their input is a valuable resource."
Illinois Loop: Politics: Left & Right School choice empowers parents, and I don t care who is behind it, Democrats orRepublicans. virginia Walden, DC parent, Washington Post, May 24, 1998; http://www.illinoisloop.org/politics.html
Extractions: More Is school reform a liberal issue or is it a conservative issue? Who supports making schools places for real learning, Democrats or Republicans? The answer: school reform crosses political boundaries. People standing up to the education establishment include liberals, radicals, conservatives, ultra-conservatives, Democrats, Republicans, and Libertarians. (The ranks of school reformers also include African-Americans, Hispanics, whites, Protestants, Catholics, Jews, rich people and poor people.) Here is a quick recap of how education reform meshes with some political and social concerns across the political spectrum. General Education Issues Liberal Conservative For those confused by such labels as "traditional", "progressive" and whether education reform has a liberal or a conservative agenda, this is MUST reading: "Why Traditional Education IS Progressive" by E. D. Hirsch, Jr., The American Enterprise, March/April 1997, and reprinted in his book, The Schools We Need, and Why We Don't Have Them
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