Education Week – Karla Scoon Reid
“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 complained of lip service but scant support for programs they say can have a big impact on student achievement. In the past seven years, large and mid-sized school districts such as Denver and Nashville have created positions and departments specifically geared toward parent involvement…Meanwhile, states are including family-engagement in their teacher-evaluation systems or making it a requirement in other programs.”(more)