How Do You Spend
$1.5 Billion A Year?
Warren Buffett's Gift
To Gates Foundation
Brings Hope To Public Schools
Warren Buffett answers a
question as Melinda
French Gates and Bill Gates
look on at the New York Public Library.
(Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
Clinton Crafts Deal
With Soda Distributors
to End Most
Public School Sales
Former President Bill Clinton
announced an agreement
by beverage companies
to halt sales of soft drinks
to public schools.
Get the
Parental
Involvement
Toolbox for
your schools.
the research
Parent Organizing
In Education
Transforming
Schools
Through
Community
Organizing:
A Research Review
M. Elena Lopez
Family Involvement
Network of Educators (FINE)
Harvard University
Family Research Project
Thinking Our
Own Thoughts:
Schools' Scripts
and Parents'
Knowledge in
Community Organizing
for School Reform
Pedro A. Noguera
New York University
Steinhardt School
of Education
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How to Bring Our Schools
Out of the 20th Century
 The
New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, a high-powered, bipartisan assembly
of Education Secretaries and business, government and other education
leaders released a blueprint for rethinking American education
from pre-K to 12 and beyond to better prepare students to thrive
in the global economy. While that report includes some controversial
proposals, there is nonetheless a remarkable consensus among
educators and business and policy leaders on one key conclusion:
we need to bring what we teach and how we teach into the 21st
century.
The Best Parental Involvement
Training Resources In America
are presented by the nation's leading researchers and leaders
in the parental involvement. The United States Department of
Education has provided Project Appleseed with 30 PowerPoint .ppt presentations for distribution
to our membership! Free when ordering
the Parental Involvement Toolbox!
Project Appleseed seeks
to create partnerships with state departments of education, nonprofit
groups, and corporate partners whose business, philanthropic,
and educational objectives can be met through a -
Leave No Parent Behind Partnership!
How Is Your School's
Parent Support?
Use the
Parental Involvement Checklist
It Takes a Parent
Transforming Education in the
Wake of the No Child Left Behind Act
This
report calls on federal, state, and local officials to
do a better job of abiding by the parental involvement sections
of the No Child Left Behind Act.
Project
Appleseed is not affiliated with Appleseed
Married and Single Parents Spending
More Time With Children, Study Finds
Despite the surge of
women into the work force, mothers are spending at least as much
time with their children today as they did 40 years ago, and
the amount of child care and housework performed by fathers has
sharply increased, researchers say in a new study, based on analysis
of thousands of personal diaries.
Four Myths
of Parent Involvement
in Schools
Southwest Educational
Development Laboratory
has combed through research to learn how
parents can help improve their
children's achievement.
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Training
& Education: Action Items
What do I have to offer
to my child's school?
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Secret Service
Safe School Initiative
Secret Service Report
Targets School Violence
Where the Fortune 50
CEOs Went to College
Public vs.
Private:
Pupils Perform
Almost Equally
U.S. Department of Education
study finds worst performance in conservative Christian schools
What Makes a
High School Great?
America's Best
1,000 High Schools
No Child Left Behind: Giving the States a Break
The Department of Education is showing new leniency on Bush's
tough school standards. But the tests aren't going away
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Take the
Pledge!
U.S. Department
of Education research demonstrates that schools that employ learning
compacts like the Parental Involvement Pledge have higher student achievement than
schools that don't.
How Is the
Parental
Involvement
At Your School
This Year?
One way to start improving your
school's parent-school partnerships is by assessing present practices.
Use the
Parental
Involvement
Checklist
Leave No
Parent Behind
How To Organize
Parental Involvement
In Public Schools
The New Public School Parent
 by Bob Chase, past president, National
Education Association (NEA)
As I travel the country and visit schools,
I have been struck by how almost everyone pays lip service to
parent and family involvement, but few seriously apply themselves
to making it happen. Why is this?
National Education
Association: Beyond the Bake Sale: Parents Can Make the Difference in
Countless Way: Kevin
Walker, the founder of the nonprofit organization Project Appleseed,
is helping schools involve parents. The organization
has created a list of 37 different ways in which parents can
help and is on its way to recruiting 5 million parent volunteers
nationwide.
Lessons
from
the
Field of
School
Reform
Organizing
A Review of
Strategies
for Organizers
and Leaders
The New York University
Institute for Education
and Social Policy
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