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Involvement of Parents of Diverse Cultural and Linguistic Backgrounds - 0 views

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    Parent involvement is consistently cited as an important correlate of effective schools. For nearly a quarter of a century, research on parental and family involvement has documented that parents can do much to reinforce positive attitudes toward school, to prepare their children for school, and to support their children's efforts once they are in school.
bruce_fillman

Connecting the Dots: RAISING A READER BUILDS EVIDENCE BASE FOR ITS PARENT ENGAGEMENT AN... - 0 views

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    Parents play an important part in literacy. We need to engage our parents to increase our children's literacy performance.
senorscott

Minority Parent and Community Engagement: Best Practices and Policy Recommendations for... - 0 views

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    In an effort to improve student achievement and to help to close the achievement gap, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the National Education Association (NEA) partnered through their Parent Engagement initiatives to increase the inclusion and engagement of parents of color in their children's education.
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New Report Focuses on Minority Parent Engagement - NEA Today - 0 views

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    A report out today identifies best practices for bridging the minority parent-school divide, compiled from study of leading educational organizations
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Understanding Latino Parental Involvement in Education: Perceptions, Expectations, and ... - 0 views

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    Latinos1 have been continually overrepresented in low-skill and service sector U.S. jobs. One of the factors accounting for this is the educational experience of the Latino community, which has been characterized by low high school graduation rates, low college completion rates and substandard schooling conditions.2 As schools and policymakers seek to improve the educational conditions of Latinos, parental influence in the form of school involvement is assumed to play some role in shaping students' educational experiences.
bruce_fillman

Parent_Involvement_In_Schools.pdf - 1 views

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    Parent involvement in schools has an impact.
senorscott

Supporting Parent, Family, and Community Involvement in Your School - 0 views

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    This guide provides ideas and suggestions taken from research on family and community involvement in schools and can help school staff and others design a long-term approach to garnering the positive involvement of all concerned. These ideas represent the tip of the iceberg of what is possible. There are as many solutions for creating a comprehensive plan to involve parents, families, and the community in the education of children, as there are schools. Each school has its own demographic mix, community context, and history. Following are ideas that can be modified and expanded upon to suit the needs of the school.
bruce_fillman

Parental Involvement in Schools | Child Trends - 0 views

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    Child Trends improves the lives and prospects of children and youth by conducting high-quality research and sharing the resulting knowledge with practitioners and policymakers.
senorscott

Parent, Family, Community Involvement in Education - 0 views

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    NEA policy brief examining research showing need for community involvement in education
sjtdea

How Informal Learning Activities Can Promote Children's Numerical Knowledge - 0 views

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    Focus on parent-child interactions, and informal learning intervention to strengthen children's number understanding (link between museum-based learning to informal learning)
bruce_fillman

NEA - Research Spotlight on Parental Involvement in Education - 0 views

shared by bruce_fillman on 01 Jun 15 - No Cached
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    When schools, families, and community groups work together to support learning, children tend to do better in school, stay in school longer, and like school more." That's the conclusion of A New Wave of Evidence, a report from SEDL.
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