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Forward Together: Building A Field That Works For Families, Center For Public Research And Leadership
Forward Together: Building A Field That Works For Families, Center For Public Research And Leadership
Center for Public Research and Leadership
The coronavirus pandemic revealed the necessity, the complexity, and the tremendous value of building strong ties between schools and families. To ensure continuity of learning, schools were forced to rely heavily on families and caregivers to support learning in the home.
But the conversation around family engagement is not new. The value of family involvement in education has been clear for decades, with strong evidence establishing this engagement as a critical driver of student academic and socioemotional outcomes.
Building on this robust research base, the Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY) in 2016 began to explore a strategy of building …