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...themes that TIME writers heard consistently while reporting on candidates for our Schools of the Year was that many parents--a minority, but still too many--have virtually dropped out of their children's education. Each school that we have recognized as outstanding has found innovative ways to get parents more involved--but those schools often work against a strong headwind. In a poll conducted earlier this year by Public Agenda, a nonprofit research organization, 70% of parents said they had not volunteered to tutor or coach in the past two years, and 60% said they had not attended...
Recent studies, including one released last week by the University of Michigan, show that kids in two-parent families spend more time with Mom and Dad than kids did 20 years ago. But much of that time is spent on activities like shopping or watching TV together. In a survey conducted last year for TIME and the Nickelodeon channel, 24% of kids felt their parents showed little or no interest in what they studied at school. Says Kim Joiner, a technology consultant at Conway Middle School in Louisville, Ky.: "It's very popular to say we have a problem...
...success of all these reforms depends on the willingness of parents and schools to change. That's the mission of a weekly night class called Parent Partners held in Kings Mountain, N.C. At the close of a recent confessional-style session, Pressley Barrino, 38, a lighting technician and father of two, told how he made some mistakes with his first child, who spent time in reform school. He's doing things differently with his 8-year-old daughter Nakia--reading to her at night and helping with homework. He has even taken to dropping by her school during his lunch...
Every school has its Leslie Kanofsky. She's the parent all the teachers know, whether they have taught her kids or not. She's a loving mom, a committed PTA officer, a regular face in the halls--and, some say, a royal pain. In an age when many schools would be pleased if most of their parents would venture into the building a couple of times a year, Kanofsky, of Skokie, Ill., is in her kids' schools as many as three times a week. The mother of a sixth-grader, an 11th-grader and a college student, she has crusaded...
...accounts, Kanofsky's activism and enthusiasm are well intentioned, and it's clear she is having an impact on her children and their schools. But not all that impact is welcome. Like many other kids of what some teachers call "helicopter parents," Kanofsky's children say they are sometimes embarrassed by their mom's presence and influence in the schools. "It's hard to tell if teachers are reacting to you as a person or if [their behavior] is colored by their impressions of your parent," says Laura Kanofsky, 19, who will be a sophomore at Harvey Mudd College...