Parents

A Guide for Hispanic Parents: How to Help Your Child Prepare for College and Career*

Why your child needs to prepare for college and a career, how to tell if your child’s school has college-ready academic standards, the special hurdles facing Hispanic students, and how parents can be effective advocates for their children.

Publication date: 
January 7 2010

A Guide for African-American Parents: How to Help Your Child Prepare for College and Career*

Why your child needs to prepare for college and a career, how to tell if your child’s school has college-ready academic standards, the special hurdles facing African-American students, and how parents can be effective advocates for their children.

Publication date: 
January 7 2010

Mobilizing for Success: Getting Students Ready for College & Career

Kadidia Thiero
National PTA 4th Emerging Minority Leaders Conference: No Leader Left Behind, Atlanta

 

Presented: 
November 7 2009

A Guide to Homework for Parents to Help Their Children Succeed*

This guide helps parents locate their state’s academic standards, compare homework assignments with the standards, ask questions about homework assignments, and get help when homework seems meaningless, too difficult, or too easy.

Publication date: 
September 30 2009

Pop Quiz for Parents

  • How effective are your child’s teachers?
  • Does your child receive the same resources as other California students?
  • Are ineffective education program wasting our tax dollars?

If you can’t answer these questions, you’re not alone.  If you want answers to these questions, click on the below document

Publication date: 
April 4 2009

Making California Data Work: A Parent and Community Guide to Finding the Truth in Data

There’s a lot that parents and communities can do to help their schools work better. But to improve your schools, you first need to understand what’s going on in them. You need facts. That’s where data comes in. It not only tells you what’s happening in your school now, it can help explain why it’s happening, what can be done to raise achievement, and show you what good things can happen when educators, parents, and community members work together for the good of all students.

Publication date: 
February 2 2008

¿Están las Escuelas Secundarias de California Listas para el Siglo 21?

Obtener y mantener un buen trabajo en el siglo 21 requiere de una educación del siglo 21. Pero la mayoría de las escuelas secundarias de California no están preparando a los estudiantes adecuadamente para que triunfen en la nueva economía en la que vivimos. En este reporte examinamos cuán bien las escuelas secundarias de California están cumpliendo con esta meta en nombre de todos los estudiantes.

Publication date: 
October 25 2006
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