In 2001 under the George W. Bush administration a federal law was passed called “No child left behind.” According to this act parents or guardians have the right to certain information, after written requests to the principal, the district is then required to provide the parent or guardian with the information within a timely matter. In addition to the information requested by the parent, the district must provide information regarding the achievement level of the parents child and timely notice that the child has been assigned or has been taught for four or more weeks by a teacher who is not highly qualified. This law is set in place to hold primary and secondary schools accountable for higher standards. The act is written to require that …show more content…
In order for the NCLB act to be effective a child's parents or guardian would need to be thoroughly involved in the student's life. According to A New Generation of Evidence, studies show that when parents are involved in their children's education at home their children do better in school. When parents are involved at school, their children go further in school, and the schools they go to are better. Currently, in order to determine how the school is doing and how the students are learning there is Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP); an observation based off a measurement from standardized …show more content…
As an example, communicating about attendance can increase average daily attendance rates and reduce chronic absences (Dervarics and O’Brien). Some examples to help improve this involvement are parenting practices and communication practices. Parenting practices include workshops about getting children to school and contracts to commit parents to children's school attendance. Communication practices include, holding parent orientations to explain attendance policies, sending home newsletters, and providing access to children's attendance information via the internet (Dervarics and