The ideas are for all grade levels and have a wide variety of activities. Two opposing views on whether parents should be involved in all decisions involving public schools are presented. There are excellent arguments on both sides. This report is by the SSTA Research Center in Saskatchawan. It is a resource for educators and school boards to help them encourage parental participation in the education process.
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This is a long comprehensive series of articles which emphasize getting parents involved in the education process. Most of the information is about the value of parent teacher interaction in the education of children. This article discusses the importance of parental involvement at the secondary level when students are less enthusiastic about having their parents participating in the educational process. It also discusses the attempts to mandate parental involvement on the state and federal level. How to Inform and involve Parents To encourage parents to be involved you must keep in touch with them.