Conference on English Acquisition Promotes Parent-Outreach Efforts

Washington

If educators want to get immigrant parents involved in their children’s education, they need to do more than just send them invitations to meetings.

That was the advice of an immigrant parent who spoke at a session on parent involvement at this year’s Summit on English Language Acquisition, held here Oct. 5-7. The U.S. Department of Education’s office of English-language acquisition sponsored the event.

Finding ways to help immigrant parents support their children’s schooling was the theme of numerous sessions at the meeting, attended by some 1,400 educators who...