Parents blogging about schools-that's us!

The Parents' Coalition blog is cited as an example of parents using online tools to push back on their local school districts in a posting on the dangerously irrelevant blog written by Scott McLeod, J.D., Ph.D.*

From the article:

Back in February I noted that parents are using online tools to push back on their local school districts. Embodying the themes expressed in Clay Shirky’s excellent book, Here Comes Everybody, parents and other stakeholders are using blogs, online discussion boards, e-mail listservs, YouTube channels, and other social media tools to organize, advocate, criticize, support, and otherwise express their opinions about their local school systems.
Here are some examples...
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The "More" Child blog also followed up on this discussion on June 1st.

*Scott McLeod, J.D. Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Educational Administration program at Iowa State University. He also is the Director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE), the nation's only center dedicated to the technology needs of school administrators, and was a co-creator of the wildly popular video, Did You Know? (Shift Happens). Dr. McLeod blogs regularly about technology leadership issues at dangerouslyirrelevant.org.