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Direct linkÁlvarez-Álvarez, Carmen – Improving Schools, 2020
The involvement of families in Spanish schools is a legally recognised right, a social demand, an educational need and a permanent challenge. However, there are limited opportunities for families to become engaged with schools in Spain. Their primary avenues for involvement are Parents' Associations ("Asociaciones de Madres y Padres de…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Foreign Countries, Parent Associations, Public Schools
Stitzlein, Sarah M. – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2015
Some parents and caregivers, frustrated by low academic performance of their local school, emphasis on testing, or the content of the curriculum, have worked independently or formed parent groups to speak out and demand improvements. Parents and families enact solutions such as opting out of tests, developing alternative curricula, invoking parent…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Dissent, Parent Attitudes, Educational Improvement
PDF pending restorationHolyoke Public Schools, MA. – 1985
Parent involvement efforts distinguish the Holyoke Public Schools of Holyoke, Massachusetts. No other school system in the region offers as many varied opportunities for parents to have an impact on their children's school experience. The Parent Involvement Policy was developed with the help of a 15-member task force of parents in the summer of…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Involvement
Download full textUS Department of Education, 2007
Children benefit academically when parents and educators work together. For this reason, parents' involvement in their children's education is a priority of the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001." But a strong connection between parents and educators does not come about automatically. Both parties may need to learn new roles and skills…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Innovation, Resource Centers, Parent School Relationship
Ferguson, Laura – Equity and Choice, 1986
Two mothers of pupils in the Holyoke School System revitalized flagging parent involvement efforts with a program, the City-Wide Parent Participation Council, that includes the following strategies: (1) membership, voting, and elections; (2) scheduling; (3) minority outreach; (4) communications staff and office; (5) publicity; and (6) special…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Minority Group Influences, Outreach Programs, Parent Associations
Coleman, James S. – 1988
Schools are more effective for students from strong family backgrounds than for those from weak ones as a result of the interaction between the resources devoted by the family to the child's education, and the resources provided by the school. The elements the family supplies towards the child's education must be developed through investment in…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Cross Cultural Studies, Dropout Rate, Elementary Secondary Education
