Unit III Journal Submission (MATHGUY18 ONLY)
Running head: PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY 1
Parental Responsibility
Kristie L. Carter
Columbia Southern University
Parental Responsibility
Corno, L., & Xu, J. (2004). Homework as the job of childhood. Theory into Practice, 43, 227-233.
This article was formed based on the interviews that were conducted on the parents by the authors. According to the authors, homework helps the child to develop good time and management skills. The article emphasizes on the importance of parents involving themselves in helping their children with their homework. The research also brings about the century-old practice of doing homework suggesting that it is essential part of childhood. The authors state that the homework creates a situation in which a child has to complete certain tasks with minimal supervision and with little training. Children that are experts in their homework demonstrate their responsibility in managing tasks. The authors believe the homework helps prepare the children for jobs in the future. Since homework plays an important role in a child’s development, the parents are entitled with the responsibility of ensuring that the homework is done. The parents have to help their students in areas that face difficulty.
Horowitz, A., & Bronte-Tinkew, J. (2007). Research-to-Results: Building, engaging, and supporting family and parental involvement in out-of-school time programs (Publication No. 2007-16). Washington, DC: Child Trends.
The author of the article points out the parental involvement in out-of- school programs. According to the article, it is the parent’s responsibility to be involved in out-of-school programs. The research states that the family involvements in the child’s activities help them to improve their academic performance and their relationships with their parents. Parental involvements in school programs have been found to improve children’s attention. The article findings were that parental involvement increased student engagement. It further states that most of the parents fail to attend to these functions due to their tight work schedules, access or feel uncomfortable to attend. The authors suggest for school to come up with multiple programs that help to engage families and help build trust. The article uses Concerned Black Men national to help support their argument and emphasize on the need for parents to be responsible for their children. They emphasized on the importance of good relationship between the parent and child.
Parcel, T. L., &Dufur, M. J. (2001). Capital at home and at school: Effects on student achievement. Social Forces, 79(3), 881-911. Retrieved from EBSCO database.
The article talks of the effects of family and school capital on math and reading scores. It also considers the effect school capital on social, human, and financial considerations in school. The article refers to the family social capital as the parental involvement in the children activities and the bond that exist between the parent and the child. The financial capital is used to refer to the financial resources present. The school social capital is defined as the relationship between the school, parent, and the children. The research is based on a longitudinal youth survey that was conducted by the Centre of Human Resource on over 12,000 youth. The study was able to establish the relationship between financial resources and achievement. It concluded that the more the children in a family the lower the chances of academic achievement due little time dedication by parents and resource dilution. The article also states that most school failures are often associated with lack of parent responsibilities at home.
Pate, P. E., & Andrews, P. G. (2006). Research summary: Parent involvement. Retrieved [June, 24, 2013] from http://www.nmsa.org/ResearchSummaries/ParentInvolvement/tabid/274/Defailt.asp x
This article addresses the benefits of parental involvement in the child’s academic success and provides strategies through which parents need to be involved in school activities. The authors mention the importance of using interactive home assignments aimed at providing good parent and child bond a program that was developed by John Hopkins University. The TIPS program suggested in the article offer ways in which the parents and the child may interact. The article states that the model increased the student’s performance. The authors suggested for the parents to be engaged in homework assignments and provide professional development for parents that needed to engage in their children’s education. The education included evening attendance of classes or mini courses offered to the parents. Finally, the article recommended that schools should develop repertoire strategies aimed at engaging parents.
Redding, S., Murphy, M., & Sheley, P., Eds.U.S. Department of Education. (2011). Handbook on family and community engagement. Lincoln, IL: Academic Development Institute.
This article contains series of reports that involve the parent and community engagement. The authors of the article developed their recommendations based on these reports. These recommendations are majorly based on education, connection, and continuous improvement among many other aspects. One of the recommendation for state education agencies included appointing a leader that coordinates the affairs of the state. According to the article, positive results can only be achieved if there is mutual understanding between the parents, teachers, and the students. The elected individual is supposed to ensure that families are engaged in school activities by putting parents in school councils and ensuring that there is fair distribution of funds to schools. The other role was to ensure that there is a good teacher and parent working relationship. The article emphasized on the need to have the parents to be involved in the school activities such as policymaking. Parental involvement will help prevent a one-way communication.
Strauss, V., & Kohn, A. (2013, February 6). Is parent involvement in school useful? Washington Post, the Answer Sheet. Retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/02/06/is-parent- involvement-in-school-really-useful/
This article questions the importance of promoting parental involvement in school. The authors states that parental influence is normally regarded as being inadequate or excessive. The article attributes the state of inadequacy to be brought about by the presence of social classes with poor parents doing less and wealthy parents concentrating too much on their children. The poor parents, which in most instances are uneducated find less time to be with their children and are not involved in their activities. Most of the poor parents cannot speak English and hence are not comfortable in school environments. Parental involvement is looked act based on how educators think and not the parents or students think. The authors of the article feel that there is need to focus on the king of parental involvement and not on how the involvement is occurring. Another issue is on how the parents are more concerned with their own children alone and not all students. The author states that it is the responsibility for all parents to check on the progress of all students and not on theirs alone. All parents need to understand what the students do and not only insist on their grades. The authors state that the parents are supposed to question teachers and educators and not help them promote status quo. The author states that parental involvement is more complicated that it is portrayed.
Wherry, J. H. (2010).This parent involvement: nine truths you must know now (Rep.). Fairfax Station, VA: The Parent Institute.
The article talks about the need for parents to be involved in the child’s education. It provides well best practices, which refers to them as nine practices for schools to engage in parents. One of the practices is parent’s responsibility to be involved in the school’s affairs of their students and not only to attend fundraising events. Research highlights the benefits of parent’s involvement on the educational progress and positive character development for their children. It talks of the importance of a two-way communication between the parents and the school. The school must provide information about progress and the parents must take time and inquire on the progress. The parents must be treated as partners and not clients, meaning that they have to contribute to the affairs involving their children. They also have to trust that the school can provide the best for their children. The article will be of great use in identifying the challenges that parents face and helps in creation of policy plan that accommodate both the schools and the individual.
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