The impact of school choice and community: in the interest of families and schools

This book offers a response to the policy failures associated with parent involvement in schools by arguing against traditional, piecemeal approaches to enhancing parent involvement in schools, and amplifying the importance of parents' social networks in the discussion of family-school partners...

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Main Author: Smrekar, Claire (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany, NY State Univ. of New York Press 1996
Series:SUNY series, youth social services, schooling, and public policy
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Summary:This book offers a response to the policy failures associated with parent involvement in schools by arguing against traditional, piecemeal approaches to enhancing parent involvement in schools, and amplifying the importance of parents' social networks in the discussion of family-school partnerships. The interaction between social structure and school organization provides compelling indications of the need to recast the concept of parent involvement to one of community building.
Physical Description:204 S.
ISBN:0791426130
0791426149

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