When my child was a first-grader at Carter-MacRae in the School District of Lancaster, at least 12 years ago, my daughter was expected to show me her portfolio and explain her work. I have no way of knowing if the SDoL still does this, but it was considered standard practice for students to do this.
My problem with this article is that it sounds like this is some sort of revolutionary new thing for schools to do.I feel it is not worthy of being a front-page article.