Parent Power
at 12:11pm on Tuesday, 15th March 2005
With an election drawing closer, there's been an ever'growing clamour over the last year or so for more 'parent power' in education. Often this debate has boiled down to squabbling as to which party offers the most 'choice' for parents and children. It's good, then, to see the government adopting a posture towards parents which begins to see them less as consumers of their children's education and more as active partners in it. The use of ICT to provide parents with information about their children's progress more often than once every parents evening ' and the provision of advice and guidance for parents online ' were a couple of the ideas discussed in our seminars with Becta and Futurelab at the end of last year. Power to the people.
With an election drawing closer, there's been an ever'growing clamour over the last year or so for more 'parent power' in education. Often this debate has boiled down to squabbling as to which party offers the most 'choice' for parents and children. It's good, then, to see the government adopting a posture towards parents which begins to see them less as consumers of their children's education and more as active partners in it. The use of ICT to provide parents with information about their children's progress more often than once every parents evening ' and the provision of advice and guidance for parents online ' were a couple of the ideas discussed in our seminars with Becta and Futurelab at the end of last year. Power to the people.
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