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A post on Clayton Early Learning’s blog highlights family engagement as a “key ingredient” in children’s education while the newly-elected Congress discusses reforming the 45-year-old Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in the context of the Obama administration’s proposed Blueprint on Education released in March 2009.  The post notes, “The fact that the proposed blueprint contains no language around family engagement is troubling—and it sends the wrong message to schools and to families,”  especially given the plentiful data and information about the benefits of family engagement in children’s education gathered by Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) and others.

Pointing out that federal funding for Title 1 schools contains a family involvement component, the post highlights that many schools and districts “really want to provide ‘good’ parent involvement,” but “don’t understand the best ways to do this.” The post urges that education reform discussions integrate the new definition of family engagement as put forward by HFRP: as a shared responsibility among families and schools, across multiple settings, from cradle to career.

Read “Is Family Engagement a Key Ingredient in the ‘Academic Cake’?” on the Clayton Early Learning blog.

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