An argument over an assignment
关于作业的争论
An Iowa high school counselor gets a call from a parent protesting the “C” her child received on an assignment. “The parent argued every point in the essay,” recalls the counselor, who soon realized why the mother was so disappointed about the grade. “It became apparent that she’d written it.”
爱荷华州的一名高中辅导员接到一位家长的电话，抗议孩子在作业中得了“C”。“这位家长对作业中的每一点都进行了辩论，”辅导员回忆道，很快他就意识到为什么这位母亲对成绩如此失望，“很明显，作业是她写的。”
New teachers’ opinions of involving parents
新教师参与家长的意见
In a survey, 90% of new teachers agreed that involving parents in their children education is a priority at their school, but only 25% described their experience working with parents as “very satisfying”. When asked to choose the biggest challenge they face, 31% of them quoted involving parents and communicating with them as their top choice. 73% of new teachers said too many parents treat schools and teachers as enemies.
在一项调查中，90%的新教师认为让家长参与孩子的教育是学校的首要任务，但只有25%的教师表示他们与家长一起工作的经历“非常令人满意”，当被要求选择面临的最大挑战是，31%的教师表示，让家长参与并与他们沟通是他们的首选。73%的新教师表示，太多的家长将学校和老师视为敌人。
Difficulties in sharing goals
分享目标的困难
At a time when competition is rising and resources are limited, when battles over tesing force schools to adjust their priorities, when cell phone and e-mail speed up the information flow and all kinds of private ghosts and public quarrels slip into the parent-teacher conference, it's harder for both sides to step back and breathe deeply and look at the goals they share.
在竞争日益激烈、资源有限的时候，当考试之争迫使学校调整优先顺序时，当手机和电子邮件加速信息流动时，各种神秘的幽灵和公共争吵悄悄进入家长会时，双方都很难退后一步，深呼吸，看看他们共同的目标。
A conflict between assumption and reality
假设与现实之间的冲突
Everyone says the parent-teacher conference should be pleasant, civilized, a kind of dialogue where parents and teachers build partnership. But what most teachers feel, and certainly what all parents feel, is anxiety and public.
每个人都说，家长会应该是愉快、文明的，是家长和教师建立伙伴关系的一种对话。但大多数教师的感受，当然也是所有家长的感受，是焦虑和恐慌。
Proper ways of parental involvement
父母参与的适当方式
When a teacher asks parents to be partners, he or she doesn’t necessarily mean Mom or Dad should be camping in the classroom. Research shows that though students benefit modestly from having parents involved at school, what happens at home matters much more. According to research based ont eh National Education Longitudinal Study, a sample of nearly 25,000 eighth graders, among four main areas of parental involvement (home discussion, home supervision, school communication, and school participation), home discussion was the most strongly related to academic achievement.
当老师要求父母成为伙伴时，并不一定意味着父母应该在教室里露营。研究表明，尽管学生从父母的参与中受益匪浅，但家里发生的事情更重要，在近25000名八年级学生的样本中，在父母参与的四个主要领域（家庭讨论、家庭监督、学校沟通和学校参与）中，家庭讨论与学业成绩的关系最为密切。
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