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Henderson, Lora J.; Williams, Joanna L.; Bradshaw, Catherine P. – Preventing School Failure, 2020
Home-school dissonance (HSD), or differing values, beliefs, and behavioral expectations between home and school may contribute to variation in parental involvement (Arunkumar, Midgley, & Urdan, 1999). This study utilized data from parent and teacher interviews to examine perspectives on parental involvement and HSD in middle school. Thematic…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Expectation, Parent Participation, Middle School Students
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D'Arcy, Kate – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2017
Critical Race Theory (CRT) is formed from a series of different methodological tools to expose and address racism and discrimination. Counter-stories are one of these tools. This article considers the potential of counter-stories as a methodological, theoretical and practical tool to analyse existing educational inequalities for Traveller…
Descriptors: Race, Critical Theory, Minority Groups, Racial Discrimination
Cornetto, Karen M. – Online Submission, 2014
This report summarizes the results of a survey of families who withdrew their children from AISD schools during 2013-2014. 199 respondents shared why they withdrew their children and what AISD could do to improve services in the future.
Descriptors: School Districts, Withdrawal (Education), Parent Surveys, Secondary School Students
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Baeck, Unn-Doris Karlsen – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2010
The topic for this article is parents' participation and willingness to participate in formalized home-school cooperation. The analyses are based on a nationwide survey among parents in lower secondary schools in Norway. A main finding is that parental involvement practices differ according to parents' level of education in the sense that parents…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Cooperation, Parent School Relationship, Foreign Countries