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Named top 10 education and parent leader in the United States by the editors of both
Teacher & Parenting magazines.

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Ohio School Reforms Itself

A Cincinnati high school transformed its abysmal test scores and graduation rate with a little financial help and a lot of hard work. Cynthia Bowers reports.

Low Academic Achievement

A national report found that an alarming number of high school seniors lack proficiency in reading and math. Katie Couric says we must do a better job of educating our kids. (CBSNews.com)

Measuring Standardized Tests

The No Child Left Behind Act is up for renewal this year, so Katie Couric wonders whether standardized tests truly measure how kids do in school and life.

Drop-Out Rate Called Shameful

Nationally 7,000 students drop-out of school each day. 1.2 million students are expected to drop-out this year.

How Do You Spend $1.5 Billion A Year? Warren Buffett's Gift To Gates Foundation Brings Hope To Public Schools Clinton Crafts Deal With Soda Distributors to End Most Public School Sales

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Mitchell & Walker Play Ball
With Gibson & McCarver On
the CBS Early Show in NYC

 

AS A PARENT, GRANDPARENT, OR CARING ADULT, I hereby give my pledge of commitment to help our community's children achieve a truly independent future. My declaration of responsibility and commitment to my public schools is stated in these five self-evident truths as spoken by President Woodrow Wilson... more

 

 

Appleseed Founder Named 2007 Inductee Webster Groves High School Wall of Fame

Ten Chosen For Webster Groves School District Wall Of Fame

 

 

Introducing!
Parent Organizing Database 1.0

Order the Parental Involvement Toolbox for your schools today! Get the Parent Organizing Database 1.0.1. Does your school or parent group need to manage parent volunteer contacts and contributions without making a huge investment of money or time? You've come to the right place. The Parent Organizing Database runs on any Windows computer, and is easy enough for everyone to learn.

View a sample of the software as slideshow!

  • These screens show the process of finding a record, editing basic info
  • These screens show entering donations, viewing donations, doing queries/reports on previous payments.
  • Organizers' Database includes sophisticated features for querying your data, printing, import, export, categorizing, and customization.
Parent Organizing Database 1.0.1 Features List

 

 

 

How America's Communities Leave No Parent Behindtm Public School Volunteer Weektm National Parental Involvement Daytm

 

 

Missouri State Board of Education Approves Model Policy on Parent/Family Involvement

 

 

The Innovative Technology Education Fund offers a competitive grant program inviting accredited schools and/or their classroom educators who are located in the greater St. Louis region (Missouri and Illinois)

Grant awards of $1,000 to $25,000 are considered annually. Geographic and urban/suburban/rural diversity will be a consideration. Special consideration will be given to wireless technology applications and/or projects benefiting students in economically disadvantaged areas, or from schools which currently perform at below-average levels in academic achievement. more....

 

 

 

 

Kansas City Parental Involvement Campaign
Working to improve the quality of life for greater Kansas City's children and youth



Appleseed Today

Missouri Commissioner of Education, D. Kent King, talks about the absolute need for more parental involvement in St. Louis. It applies to University City as well.

St. Louis Area School Districts Affton Bayless Brentwood Clayton Ferguson-Florissant Hancock Place Hazelwood Jennings Kirkwood Ladue Lindbergh MRH Mehlville Normandy Parkway Pattonville Ritenour Riverview Gardens Rockwood Special St. Louis University City Valley Park Webster Groves Wellston St. Charles County Fort Zumwalt Francis Howell Orchard Farm St. Charles Wentzville Jefferson County Crystal City Desoto Dunklin R-5 Festus R-6 Fox C-6 Grandview R-2 Hillsboro Jefferson R-7 Northwest R-1 Sunrise Windsor C-1 Franklin County Lonedell Meramec Valley New Haven St. Clair Spring Bluff Sullivan Union Washington Gasconade County Gasconade R-2 Lincoln County Elsberry Troy Winfield Pike County Pike County R-III St. Francois County North St. Francois Warren County Warren County R-3 Washington County Kingston K-14 East County Illinois Belleville Schools Belleville Township Collinsville Wood River-Hartford St. Clair County Madison County St. Louis Area Schools Ranked In America's Best 1,000 High Schools! Metro High School #40 Ladue #240 Clayton #281 What Makes a High School Great?

 

Where the Fortune 50 CEOs Went to College

No Child Left Behind: Giving the States a Break
The Department of Education is showing new leniency on Bush's tough school standards. But the tests aren't going away

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As a parent here are 12 things you should know about and expect from your schools ....and from yourself

 


Leave No 
Missouri Parent
Behindtm

Join Five Million 
Americans On
National Parental 
Involvement Day
Third Week of 
November 2007

 

Four Myths
of Parent 
Involvement 
in Schools
Southwest Educational 
Development Laboratory  
has combed through 
research to learn 
how parents 
can help improve their 
children's achievement.

 

A Report 
On Raising 
Student 
Achievement



Report of the 
Strategic Support Teams
of the Council of the 
Great City Schools
Download .pdf

 

 

St. Louis 
Black 
Leadership 
Roundtable
Best Practices 
Manual & 
Resource Guide
Focused on 
Eliminating the
African American 
Achievement Gap


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Project Appleseed seeks to create partnerships with state departments of education, nonprofit groups, and corporate partners whose business, philanthropic, and educational objectives can be met through a Leave No Parent Behind Partnership.

 

Public schools have the edge in math, new study indicates

Catholic schools scored lower than those in public schools

 


      

 

 

The St. Louis Honor Roll

We thank the following St. Louis leaders who have been supportive of this organization since 1994

Major Sponsors & Honor Roll Leaders A.G. Edwards & Sons, Ben Edwards* Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation, Andy Taylor* Schnucks Markets, Craig Schnuck* J.S. Express Delivery, John Cochran* Ruth Siteman* John & Joan Vatterrott BSI Constructors, Joseph Shaughnessy McDonnell-Douglas, John McDonnell*
Honor Roll Robert E. Jones / Gray, Ritter and Graham, P.C. Kataman Communications LLC, Ben Fixman / Koplar Communications International Inc., Edward Koplar Mayer Custom Homes Inc., J. Randall Mayer / Midland Oil Company, Gary Pohrer / Millstone Foundation, Colleen C. Millstone / Missouri AFL-CIO, Hugh McVey / Sansone Group, Joseph Sansone Husch & Eppenberger, LLC., Gregory Smith / Mary Strauss, Fox Theater**
Principal's List Ameren UE / Geotechnology Inc., Edmond D. Alizadeh / Des Lee Foundation, Des Lee / Dierberg's Markets, Bob Dierberg / John Fabick Tractor Co., Harry P. Fabick / Thomas Guilfoil,Guilfoil Petzall & Shoemaker / Kathleen Gunn / Donald Lasater** / Lohr Distributing Co., Ronald K. Lohr / Saigh Foundation / Douglas Sitton / St. Louis Area Hotel Association,
Community Leaders Frank Bick / Kathleen Brady / Donald Breckenridge / Brown & Associates, James P. Brown / Callis Papa, Lance Callis / Ronald Chod / Creative Producers Group, Keith Alper / Dr. Paul Dewald** / Dennis Flatness / Historic Lemp Brewery, Shashi and Rao Palamand / St. Louis Labor Tribune Head of the Class David Mason & Associates, Jim Hacking / Amos Harris / Sam Hayes / Renea McDonald / Environmental Management Corp., Paul J. McKee / Gordon & Susie Philpott / William Sledhoff / William Suntrup / Ann Tretter / Douglas Yaeger / Ruth Stone

* Donor prior to 2001

Special thanks to the staff and administrations of: Mayor Francis Slay Mayor Clarence Harmon Mayor Freeman Bosley Superintendent Cleveland Hammonds Jr. Civic Progress Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon

 

On behalf of St. Louis' parents Project Appleseed says thank you very much to these St. Louisians for their generous support!

 

 

 

 

520 Melville / St. Louis, Missouri / 63130-4506 Fax: (314) 725-2319 stlouis@projectappleseed.org

Copyright 2005, Parents Advocating Challenging Education, a 501 (c) (3) Nonprofit Missouri Corporation. Project Appleseed, The National Campaign for Public School Improvement, The St. Louis Campaign for Public School Improvement The Parental Involvement Pledge, The Parental Involvement Report Card, National Parental Involvement Day, Public School Volunteer Week, Organized Parental Involvement, Million Minute School and Billion Minute Reading Campaign are trademarks of The National Campaign for Public School Improvement. All Rights Reserved.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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