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An Easy Way For Parents To Monitor How Well Their Children Are Doing In School Here’s the problem: public schools are sometimes mediocre; children learn little; but parents don’t find out until it’s too late.

Question is, how can parents check on a school’s performance? How can they know if children are falling behind schedule?

“What parents need,” according to Bruce Price, the founder of ImproveEducation.org, “is simple benchmarks suggesting the subjects that children would typically study in each grade. I’m talking about really simple rules of thumb, comparable to ‘children usually walk by two and talk by three.’ We need the same sort of guidelines for each grade. It probably doesn’t matter if the child is a year ahead or behind. The big danger in that students slip several years behind. That’s what we absolutely need to stop.”

Improve-Education.org has just added “43: American Basic Curriculum,” which is intended to help parents monitor how their children are doing.

“The material is very brief,” Price points out. “It has to be. This is not a curriculum in the sense of listing everything a child studies. This material is designed to set brackets on where a child should be.”

For example, the entry for 2nd-grade math says in toto: “Count to 50; add and subtract 2-digit mumbers.” Point is, it’s easy for parents to assess these skills. American Basic Curriculum (ABC) gives parents a little more insight and control.