Parents Across America members have written short information sheets on key issues that parents and school districts are facing across the country. These information sheets include links to other useful studies and reports. Some are in handy downloadable formats for you to print and share with others.
We’re adding subjects all the time, so be sure to check back often!
Information and Fact Sheets
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- Why would anyone who cares about public schools shop at Wal*Mart?
- Education inequities and what we can do about them
- PAA Background material on the negative effects of mass school closings (9/17) schoolclosingspacket
- Stand for Children: What parents need to know
- Vouchers may harm student learning: new research
- “Our Children @ Risk” Documentation and Background Paper on the problems with misuse and overuse of digital technology
- EdTech: mental and emotional effects – How EdTech may be harming our children’s mental and emotional health
- EdTech: impact on children’s intellectual and academic development
- EdTech: impact on children’s physical health
- How EdTech undermines quality teaching and learning
- Facts on Sitting and Children’s Health
- Blended learning? Personalized learning? Competency-based learning? Student-centered learning? Self-directed learning? We unpack the buzz words.
- Buzz words images (EdTech: Let’s call it what it really is)
- EdTech: Who Benefits? – Not our children!
- Ed Tech: Questions to ask — What to ask at your child’s school
- The Dangers of Value-Added Measurement
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- The Impact of Poverty, Race and Cultural Bias on Educational Opportunity
- Test Stress and our Children
- Documentation for test stress fact sheet
- Common Core Basics
- Annotated References for Common Core and CCSS tests position paper
- What is a Quality Education?
- A Parent’s Guide to the Broad Foundation’s Training Programs and Policies (pdf)
- Ask the Right Questions! (some guidelines for evaluating data and research)
- Why Class Size Matters
- Why Class Size Matters Fact Sheet (click here to download)
- How Teaching Experience Makes a Difference
- Parents’ Rights and the Value of Parent Involvement
- Ignoring Poverty Doesn’t Work
- PAA’ Capitol Hill Toolkit
- Tying Teacher Salaries to Test Scores Doesn’t Work
- Tying Teacher Salaries to Test Scores Doesn’t Work Fact Sheet (click here to download)
- Research showing NCLB Doesn’t Work and PAA Positions Do
- Research showing NCLB doesn’t work and PAA positions do (pdf)
- Why More Standardized Tests Won’t Improve Education
- Why Class Size Reduction is a More Effective Reform than those required by Race to the Top (pdf)
- What Parents need to know: FAQ “Won’t Back Down” & Parent Trigger
- Beyond the parent trigger hype & propaganda: Just the Facts
- Parents’ Online Toolkit for the “Won’t Back Down” movie and Beyond
