The report by Civic Enterprises (2008), One Dream, Two Realities: Perspective of Parents on America’s High Schools, informs us that regardless of income, race, ethnicity, or school their children attend, parents have the same opinion about the education today: education is important in the new, demanding world, and parent involvement is crucial to the children’s academic success. However, some parents often cannot find that point of access into their child’s school due to the two different school systems in America: one that is largely promoting academic achievement in their students, thus involving the parents in the educational process, and another that does not do either. The report presents the fact that in low achieving schools, the parent involvement is low not only because of parent’s lack of time to be engaged, but also because of no opportunity provided by the school, poor communication about what is being taught in classes and about the child’s poor performance in school. The recommendations made include parental engagement through the partnership with community organizations that will provide resources parents need to be effectively involved in their children’s education. Classes should be offered to parents at times most convenient to them and child care should be provided for the single parents to be able to attend. Schools
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Student Learning – inform and/or involve/train parents and caregivers in children’s learning activities so that they may play an integral role in assisting student learning. These activities will benefit all families and teachers. All parents need to know how to share the responsibility for student learning, monitor schoolwork and homework (students acquire the skill of working independently/ diligently at different developmental stages, therefore is better to implement adult supervision until the student is ready to work independently), work with their children in establishing objectives and prepare for college or
Student Learning – inform and/or involve/train parents and caregivers in children’s learning activities so that they may play an integral role in assisting student learning. These activities will benefit all families and teachers. All parents need to know how to share the responsibility for student learning, monitor schoolwork and homework (students acquire the skill of working independently/ diligently at different developmental stages, therefore is better to implement adult supervision until the student is ready to work independently), work with their children in establishing objectives and prepare for college or