Parents may not speak English and don't know how to help their children. The key to student achievement in lower socioeconomic areas is positive parental involvement. When there is good parental involvement, you have higher student achievement. School districts, administrators and the local teacher association need to work together to promote positive parental involvement. We need to boost teacher salaries to get better teachers in urban schools.
Teachers know what needs to be done.
Just give us the materials we need, a reasonable class size and a decent salary - then get out of our way and let us do our jobs.