Last month, a Texas legislator came up with the radical proposal to make a skipped parent-teacher conference a misdemeanor offense. The law would fine parents $500 if they don’t show up and squeeze ...

What topics should you cover in your ninth-grader's parent-teacher conference? Here are some tips that experts suggest. High school is the time when parents often feel their presence at parent-teacher ...

Parents can make the most of their 15 minutes during a parent-teacher conference by asking specific questions, says the author.Courtesy of Lauran Woolley I've taught elementary school for 10 years and ...

Nearly 50 years ago, the federal government’s main education law began requiring schools to give low-income parents a voice in their children’s schools. Then in 1981, that language was repealed under ...

Over the next few weeks, parents and teachers will sit across from each other in tiny chairs and discuss a child’s progress in a parent-teacher conference. And though parents and teachers alike may ...

Talking to your child before the conference to find out if he has any questions or concerns of his own can give you ideas of what to address with the teacher. A good next step: having a physical list ...

This may sound like a silly question, but I’m really trying to do right by my kid. We have our very first parent-teacher conference next week. He’s only in kindergarten, so I know this isn’t a college ...

So now that students have settled in to the routine of the school year, yet another fall education ritual looms: the parent-teacher conference. And while there's universal agreement that parent ...