Nov03
EDUCATION: Helping Your Child With Homework by Nancy Paulu from KidSource.com
Families play a vital role in educating America’s children. What families do is more important to student success than whether they are rich or poor, whether parents have finished high school or not, or whether children are in elementary, junior high, or high school.
Yet, for all that common sense and research tell us, family involvement often remains neglected in the debate about American school reform. To focus more attention on this important subject, the U.S. Congress recently added to an initial list of six National Education Goals another that states:
Every school will promote partnerships that will increase parental involvement and participation in promoting the social, emotional, and academic growth of children.
The Office of Educational Research and Improvement has produced Helping Your Child With Homework to contribute to the drive to increase family involvement in children’s learning. As the handbook points out, we know that children who spend more time on homework, on average, do better in school, and that the academic benefits increase as children move into the upper grades.
