5 Great Ways That Parents Can Partner with Teachers

In education rhetoric, there are two common narratives regarding parents and teachers. First, there is the idea that teachers spend most of their days “undoing” the damage done to students at home. The second narrative is that parents and teachers ought to be “partners” in their students’ education.


Arne Duncan, United States Secretary of Education, exemplified this second narrative when he spoke with USA Today, “Parents are always going to be our students’ first teachers. The most important thing I can do is to read to my children every night, to not have them watching TV and to really be a partner with that teacher. Parents have to step up.”

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