A Program of Parent-School Cooperation.

The article reports on the success of a parent-teacher cooperation program in Pasadena, California. The National Congress of Parents and Teachers is potentially the most effective lay organization in community life for the support and improvement of public education. In many communities throughout the U.S., the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) has assumed this role and has improved the quality of living within the community to a very significant degree through the improvement of the educational program. The purposes of the Pasadena PTA have been first, to interpret the needs of the community to the school and, second, to interpret the needs of the school to the community. Special attention has been given to the second purpose, since it seems that this purpose is sometimes neglected in parent-teacher organizations. Attempts have been made to develop techniques for realizing these purposes both individually and in groups. There is a keen feeling in Pasadena that the PTA should remain a lay organization, that every effort should be made to keep the organization from being dominated by school people, while at the same time encouraging teacher participation in every phase of its program.