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Parents play a crucial role in their children’s education, serving as their first teachers and lifelong champions.
This category explores the partnership between parents and educators in supporting children’s learning and development.
Articles in this category cover a range of topics, including fostering a supportive home environment for learning, promoting parental involvement in education, and nurturing critical thinking skills in children.
Whether you’re a parent looking for guidance on how to support your child’s education or an educator seeking to strengthen the home-school partnership, our articles aim to provide practical tips and insights to help families navigate the educational journey together.
The Growing Teacher Shortage and Its Immediate Education Impact Educators across urban and rural districts are sounding an alarm about a mounting crisis: persistent staffing shortages are eroding the capacity of schools to deliver consistent, high-quality instruction. A combination of unfilled vacancies, budget pressures and a failure to replace departing staff has left many institutions …
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Federal Oversight of Special Education in New Orleans: A Guest Perspective on the Consent Decree As both an advocate and a parent, I have watched the arc of public education in New Orleans shift dramatically since Hurricane Katrina. That storm did not just displace families and teachers; it also exposed deep, systemic failures in how …
Strengthening Mental Well-Being for Rural Left-Behind Children through Needs-Based Rural Education The phenomenon of left-behind children in rural settings is both widespread and complex, shaped by economic migration and structural barriers. In many regions, parents migrate to urban centers for work, leaving children in the care of grandparents or other kin. National statistics in recent …
Ukraine’s children confront a fourth school year amid invasion and widespread education challenges As Ukraine enters its fourth school year under the strain of a full-scale invasion, the human story behind the numbers becomes central to any plan for recovery. For many families the day begins with an air raid alarm rather than a school …
Why Chinese mothers choose family relocation to Silicon Valley for Ivy League dreams The decision to uproot a family for education is rarely spontaneous. For many in our profile, led by the example of Joanna Gao, the move from Shanghai to Palo Alto in 2018 was calculated around a singular objective: improving their children’s odds …
How CalKIDS Scholarship Works: Eligibility and Qualification for Over 5 Million California Children The launch of the CalKIDS program in 2022 represented a major policy move to expand early access to education funding across California. The program set up an initial scholarship account for every child born in the state on or after July 1, …
Why Chinese mothers relocate entire families to Silicon Valley for elite education Melody Xu and her mother Doris Zhou became a familiar example in Palo Alto: they represent a wave of Chinese mothers who have chosen family relocation to pursue elite education opportunities for their children. The decision to move is rarely spontaneous; it follows …
Mamdani’s Child Care Vision and the Transition Team Composition: People Who Will Shape Policy When Mamdani announced his transition committees, he signaled a clear priority: a city-level commitment to Child Care that links to a broader Education Vision. The composition of the youth and education team reveals strategic choices — a mix of longtime policy …
Top and Troubled: How Children at Risk Ranked Houston Middle Schools for 2025 The 2025 release from Children at Risk reframes local conversations about school choice by publishing a rigorous set of Rankings that blend standardized test results with broader measures of school wellbeing. For families like the Rivera household — where parent Maya Rivera …
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Schools and the scope of the health crisis among American youth: data, trends, and immediate signals The last few years have made it impossible to ignore a worsening reality: a pervasive health crisis affecting American youth that is tightly interwoven with the daily life of schools. Public health surveillance and school-based reporting show increases in …