Can Parent Involvement Lead to Increased Student Achievement in Urban Schools?

Autor/in	Swap, Susan McAllister
Titel	Can Parent Involvement Lead to Increased Student Achievement in Urban Schools?
Quelle	(1991), (18 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Achievement Gains; Elementary Education; Low Income Groups; Models; Parent Participation; Parent School Relationship; Parent Student Relationship; School Restructuring; Urban Schools + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Achievement gain; Leistungssteigerung; Elementarunterricht; Analogiemodell; Elternmitwirkung; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule
Abstract	The Schools Reaching Out (SRO) program suggests that the achievement of low-income urban students can be raised through a "paradigm shift" to beliefs in success for all children in school, and the necessity of parent involvement for achieving that success. SRO attempts to change the traditional distant relationship between schools and parents in the following ways: (1) bringing parents and teachers together more often for a variety of purposes; (2) increasing communication between school and home; (3) making parents an integral part of the school environment; (4) developing outreach programs to recruit parents who have not been previously involved with the schools; (5) offering mutually supportive parent programs; (6) using third party intervention to resolve problems between parents and the school; (7) emphasizing active listening, empowerment, and respect in parent-teacher interactions; and (8) involving parents in informal decision making. A review of effective urban school programs suggests that the School Development Model and the Accelerated Schools program could be combined into a model for school reform. SRO has developed a Sequential Model for Family-School Collaboration for Children's Learning that outlines the process for building successful school-parent relationships. Two figures are included. A list of 24 references is appended. (FMW)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC