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Direct linkJessica Holloway; Diego Santori – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2024
This paper presents findings from a year-long network ethnography into the strategies, networks, and outcomes of More Than a Score (MTAS)--a campaign against standardised testing in UK primary schools. Focusing specifically on the parent-based groups of the organisation, we use theorisations of symbolic capital to challenge traditional…
Descriptors: Parents, Longitudinal Studies, Standardized Tests, Foreign Countries
Fernández, Érica; Rodela, Katherine C. – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background/Context: Given our current anti-immigrant context, it is pertinent that we understand how (un)documented parents who are members of a parent-organized and parent-initiated group come to develop a collectivist Latinx identity within oppressive and marginalizing structures and policies. Purpose/Objectives: This study analyzes the…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Undocumented Immigrants, Parents, Ethnicity
Download full textKüçükali, Ridvan – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
In this study, we tried to find an answer to the question as to whether positive outcomes in socio-emotional and academic sense may be provided to the education of kids kept under the practice known as "Volunteer Guardians on duty". This study reached the following conclusions through the data obtained. The presence of legal guardians…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Volunteers, Child Development, Statistical Analysis
Cassano, Michelle – Our Children: The National PTA Magazine, 2012
When Corbell Elementary opened its doors in 2006 in Frisco, Texas, its newly formed PTA faced the challenge of implementing a productive fundraiser to get the school off to a great start. The new board chose to focus its efforts on a single fundraiser, rather than a series of smaller ones. They wanted to avoid having the children selling any kind…
Descriptors: Parents, Teachers, Parent Associations, Teacher Associations
Okeke, Chinedu I. – South African Journal of Education, 2014
The primary aim of the study from which this paper derives was to investigate the level of parental involvement in the schooling of their children. The study employed a descriptive case study research design. All data were based on unstructured interviews with the 30 parents whose children attended one of the primary schools located in the London…
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, Parent Participation, Case Studies, Research Design
Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
We examine a program that enabled Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs) in Kenya to hire novice teachers on short-term contracts, reducing class sizes in grade one from 82 to 44 on average. PTA teachers earned approximately one-quarter as much as teachers operating under central government civil-service institutions but were absent one day per week…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Ratio, Incentives, Governance, Teacher Associations
