The 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was established to unite political parties and diverse stakeholders in ensuring the success of every elementary and secondary school student regardless of their race, income, zip code, disability, home language, and background (Department of Education n.d.). ESSA deliberately promotes parent and family school engagement through federal funding and
Full length article “The Organizational Landscape of Schools: School Employees’ Conceptualizations of Organizations in Their Environment” by Prado Tuma published by the American Journal of Education available here. Education policy and funding increasingly attempt to foster the creation of school–community partnerships as a way to provide enrichment programs for students, offer services for families, and
Image by Flickr user COD Newsroom Practitioners, policy-makers, and researchers consider family engagement with schools to be crucial to student success. When parents and teachers have strong relationships, they are more apt to share information about how a child is doing in home and school environments, and are better able to work together to help
