The state of education – particularly K-12 education – is a constant source of concern, particularly now that the age of manufacturing is gone as far as the U.S. is concerned. High-paid, low-skilled jobs have gone forever – and tomorrow’s workers will need sharper skills. Yet a huge part of U.S. high school students isn’t doing nearly as well as they need to. Is there an answer? Scholars say there is – get parents more involved.
Researchers from Harvard &Bristol found a way to improve a kid’s math skills #dyscalculia
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Study Claims Students Progress More when Parents are Texted about Their Performance.
How to get there is the real challenge. Now a study in Britain offers a stunningly simple solution. And it does not cost an arm and a leg either. Just text the parent about how the kid is doing at school, when she/he needs to take tests, apparently led to over an extra month’s progress for kids, a study of 16,000 British school children shows.
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The students whose parents received these texts made an additional month’s progress in math compared to students who were not in the group, with an independent team of evaluators confirming the effect was most likely from the intervention, and not random.
"Key Takeaways:
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A parents involvement in a child’s education is one of the most effective ways to raise a students achievements.
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Studies showing that when parents receive text messages with updates on the child’s learning, they become more involved in a child’s studies.
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In the study, a separate group did not receive the text updates and there was a noticeable difference between them and the children whose parents received the texts.
