Walk the walk, not talk the talk

Parents for Learning is offering this webinar designed to help parents and teachers understand which kinds of parental involvement matter most and what they can do to promote important parental involvement.

This is all very fine, but the problem is that most public education systems have a number of very powerful built-in factors that militate against parental involvement - and these factors figure to swamp any well-meaning efforts such as the one attempted by Parents for Learning. Here's an old School for Thought blog that lays out this problem. 

And here's an article from our newsletter archives that shows what schools could be doing if they were really serious about fostering parental involvement.

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