Parental Involvement in Education: What Kind? To What Ends?
Category: PARENTING
Exhortations for more "parental involvement" remind me of calls to be "a good citizen": In the abstract, everyone is for it. But inspected closely, what's most often meant by the term turns out to be considerably more complicated and even worthy of skepticism.
By Alfie Kohn, Contributor
Author and lecturer on education, parenting, and human behavior, 2013-02-06