
90% of parents: My kid is doing well
Parents worry about paying for college, a Learning Heroes survey shows. They worry if their kids are happy and safe at school. But they don’t worry much about academic achievement, reports Shannon Gilchrist of the Columbus Dispatch on the Education Writers of America site. Ninety percent of public-school parents believe their children are performing at or above grade level in reading and math. In a panel at the EWA conference, parents said they trusted their children’s teache