Chicago Program Trains Parents To Help In Classroom Instruction.

The Chicago Tribune (4/28, Schmich) reports on a program in Chicago in which "parents of schoolchildren - typically immigrant women - were being trained by the Logan Square Neighborhood Association to work in the schools. Many teachers had swallowed their doubts and discovered that parents could be helpful in the classroom." Harvard Graduate School of Education researcher Soo Hong "was so impressed that she spent four years traveling regularly from her Boston home to study this unusual program in Chicago. ... What was happening in Logan Square, she saw, went far beyond what schools elsewhere were doing to engage parents."