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Haines, Shana J.; Reyes, Cynthia C.; Ghising, Hemant; Alamatouri, Ashraf; Hurwitz, Rachel; Haji, Madina – Preventing School Failure, 2022
Family-professional partnerships are linked to student success, yet little research has explored the nuances of such partnerships with refugee families new to the U.S. school system. To explore this phenomenon, we conducted an embedded case study through which we qualitatively examined the family-professional partnerships between 10 newly…
Descriptors: Refugees, Family School Relationship, Adolescents, Parent Teacher Cooperation
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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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Chu, Szu-Yin – Preventing School Failure, 2014
This exploratory qualitative study aimed to examine the perspectives of teachers and parents of Chinese American students with disabilities regarding home-school communication in the special education field. The author recruited 2 parents and 2 teachers for this study. Different sources of data including observations, interviews, documentations,…
Descriptors: Chinese Americans, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Family School Relationship