Schools Must Rebuild Trust

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Title: Schools Must Rebuild Trust
Language: English
Authors: Pondiscio, Robert
Source: Educational Leadership. Sep 2022 80(1):64-67.
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Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 4
Publication Date: 2022
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Evaluative
Descriptors: Parent School Relationship, Trust (Psychology), COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Public Schools, Enrollment Trends, Leadership Responsibility, Parent Participation, Activism, Social Change
ISSN: 0013-1784
1943-5878
Abstract: Schools are facing a growing number of disaffected parents. To win them back, says one policy analyst, educators need to take their concerns to heart. After two-and-a-half pandemic years, writes policy analyst Robert Pondiscio, public schools are facing a growing number of disaffected parents--a trend reflected in declining enrollments. Pondiscio argues that this wave of parent dissatisfaction is the result of prolonged school closures as well a tendency toward "insiderism" and ideological bias in the education profession. Regaining parents' trust, he writes, will "require a spirit of openness, candor, and perhaps a shift in mindset" among educators. "The stakes for public schools couldn't be higher."
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2023
Access URL: https://www.ascd.org/el/strengthening-school-family-partnerships
Accession Number: EJ1381683
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:Schools are facing a growing number of disaffected parents. To win them back, says one policy analyst, educators need to take their concerns to heart. After two-and-a-half pandemic years, writes policy analyst Robert Pondiscio, public schools are facing a growing number of disaffected parents--a trend reflected in declining enrollments. Pondiscio argues that this wave of parent dissatisfaction is the result of prolonged school closures as well a tendency toward "insiderism" and ideological bias in the education profession. Regaining parents' trust, he writes, will "require a spirit of openness, candor, and perhaps a shift in mindset" among educators. "The stakes for public schools couldn't be higher."
ISSN:0013-1784
1943-5878