Teachers need to spend more time teaching, and less time advising, coaching or attending meetings. We need smaller classes, or more computers. The most common solutions focus on changes in the curriculumn, teacher training strategies, administration and funding. When a community raises concerns about children's school success, the family turns to the school for answers. Often schools can make changes to facilitate children's academic success and intellectual growth, but the fact is that our schools already succeed more often than they fail.
Most children do learn to read, write, and do math.
They attend college or university, get jobs, assume community leadership roles, and keep our economy growing. No doubt continual adjustments can make our school even more successful in educating our youth. But schools are not the only influence on academic performance. Family factors have an important bearing on a child's academic achievement, and yet we have a history of schools and families not working together. The family-school connection is complex Both the school and the family are complex environments.