parents role in school achievement
Parents Accessing Children’s Grades Online–Good or Bad?
Monday, October 6th, 2008An article in Stars and Stripes recently reported that the Department of Defense Dependents Schools-Europe implemented a new software program , GradeSpeed. The program gives parents via Internet access to their children’s progress with attendance, assignments and grades.
Instead of hearing about grades at report periods only, GradeSpeed allows parents to keep up as teachers enter grades throughout [...]
Should We Grade Parents?
Monday, November 19th, 2007A recent post by Kathleen Manzo in edweek.org’s blog, Motivation Matters, posed the question “Are parents doing their part to ensure their children are successful in school?”
Her article tells of a Connecticut school board member, Steve Edwards, who proposes that his district issue report cards to parents. His intentions are to gauge how well children support [...]