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For a few years now, every parent of a newborn baby in the South Florida district has received a congratulations packet while still in the hospital that includes, among other things, a colorful animal picture book (in three languages) and a letter from something called the ParentAcademy. "Keep in mind that you are, and will always be, your child’s first and most important teacher," the letter reads. "Miami-DadeCounty Public Schools has many resources and opportunities for you to make the most of that awesome responsibility." You have to admit, it’s a pretty genius interpretation of that old advertising saying "Get’em while they’re young."
While the concept of parent academies--in which towns or school districts offer what are essentially classes and workshops on parenting skills--has been around for more than a decade, several larger cities are starting or expanding such programs in an effort to engage parents who are otherwise uninvolved in their child’s education. Philadelphia has invested heavily in this year’s launch of a comprehensive and wide-ranging program for parents.Boston is restoring its Parent University following an earlier version’s shutdown due to budget cuts.And Miami’s ParentAcademy, now in its fifth year, offers more than 100 workshops that range from Help YourChild Succeed in Math to TeachingBehavior Skills.
Parent academies are particularly helpful for urban communities full of mothers and fathers who for various reasons are disengaged from their children’s education. Many are single parents with second jobs that leave little time to help with schoolwork.Some are immigrants who don’t understand muchEnglish.Some are parents uncomfortable with schoolwork--a survey released by Intel found that more than 50% of parents would rather talk to their kids about drugs or drunk driving than about math or science.And then there’s the general confusion that often comes from dealing with a bureaucracy(官僚作风) as complicated as the typicalAmerican school district. "There are parents who are just not as well informed about the way schools work," says Karen Mapp, director of theEducation Policy and Management Program at the Harvard Graduate School ofEducation. "The policies, the procedures, what state test scores mean--it’s not that they don’t care; they just don’t know how."
Picture yourself in the following supposed situations: you’re a parent who never graduated high school; you’re a parent whose only interactions with schools have been negative ones; you’re a parent who has zero recollection of how to divide fractions; you’re a parent who has no clue as to what the important dates are on the college- application calendar. Now picture yourself experiencing all of the supposed situations at once, and then imagine how your child would suffer from your knowledge deficiency. For as much as the current wave of education reformers like to maintain that quality teachers and schools can help overcome environmental factors, a child’s home life plays an undeniable role in how well they learn, says Mapp.
"I’ve been doing research on family engagement for about 16 years now," she says. "And there’s 40 years of research that indicates a pretty positive relationship between families being engaged in their children’s education and positive effects on students in terms of their academic achievement." Mapp is currently helping write a case study on Miami’s ParentAcademy program, which is one of the nation’s most successful big-city attempts in this areA、Privately funded by local philanthropists (慈善家) and businesses, the ParentAcademy has seen more than 120,000 people participate in its workshops during the past half-decade. It has taught parents everything from how to reinforce reading lessons at home to how to deal with threat and the dangers of sexing.
The county has partly adjusted its
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