| 'Dashboards' Provide Data Designed To Help Parents Rate School Performance |  |
| U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings has unveiled a new tool to show the public a snapshot of how schools fare in reading and math achievement, graduation rates and participation in challenging Advanced Placement exams. |  |
| Community: Part Three (PDF) | |
| The Internet can provide information for parents from all communities. A parent portal that provides information in the primary languages served by the school can help improve parents' involvement and engagement in their students' education. Properly constructed, parent portals can provide information about student assignments and performance, two-way communication with teachers and administrators, and paperwork reduction, as well as announcements of school and community events and activities to parents from all language backgrounds. | |
| Home: Part Six (PDF) | |
| Technology can expand opportunities for parents to learn about and become involved in their child's education. A parent portal is a web site designed to provide parents secure access to information about their children's homework and schoolwork, as well as calendar information and opportunities to access teachers and administrators. | |
| Home: Part One (PDF) | |
| Online courses can enable schools to expand student learning opportunities. Schools can offer subjects on which no local expertise is available, that only a few students are interested in, or that are unavailable because of traditional scheduling. This is particularly true for languages, advanced course topics, and college preparatory courses, but online courses can also be invaluable in helping students who are struggling or who have dropped out and wish to recover the credits necessary to graduate. | |
| Technology Demands Educational Changes | |
| According to a new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, there's a long way to go before adults embrace interactive online media to the degree that teens have. | |
| Parents As Partners | |
| The role of parents in education is shifting, along with the traditional family structure of the United States. The authors discuss the importance of family support and offer strategies for building the relationship between teachers and parents. | |
| NETS For Students: Profiles For Technology Literate Students (PDF) | |
| Profiles of technology literate students for grades preK-12, developed by ISTE's National Educational Technology Standards project. | |
| Information Technology's Impact On School–Parents And Parents–Student Interrelations: A Case Study | |
| This paper explores the impact of a school management information system on the interrelations between parents and school and parents and their student children in terms of the children's learning, behavior and attendance (LBA), during one academic year, in a vocational high school, located in a mainstream socio-economic neighborhood. Parents' LBA interrelations with the principal, homeroom teachers, grade level coordinators, and the school as an institution as well as with their children changed noticeably. The involvement of parents in general, but of parents with children having LBA problems in particular, in school LBA issues became more intensive, more frequent and more focused. The paper's results add the information technology dimension to parents involvement in school research, a dimension neglected so far. Implications for the principal's work are discussed. | |
| How To Protect Your Computer | |
| Article about protecting your computer from cyber intrusion | |