Schools are at the crossroads of yesterday's traditions, today's demographics, and tomorrow's technologies. This three-way intersection is, at this time, a hazardous crossing. We are getting a variety of messages about whether and how to proceed to improve schools. We are seeing red signals to stop and head back toward traditional curricular designs with all students taking the same courses, as if all students were headed in the same direction. We are seeing yellow signals of caution about innovative curricula, school and business partnerships, changing teachers' roles, and changing the structures for teachers' salaries. We are getting green signals to go quickly in many directions with technological advances, to invigorate the students' role away from passive toward active learning, and to prepare students for the demands of society in the future. Although it may be easier and safer not to cross the street at all, it is more interesting to step, with due caution, in new directions to improve education. One new direction involves parents. Schools of the future will improve, it is believed, if schools and families, teachers and parents, understand each other's potential for improving the education of the children they share. Studies have been conducted