The Impact of School Choice and Community: In the Interest of Families and Schools

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Examines ways in which school structures can change to increase parental involvement.This book offers a response to the policy failures associated with parent involvement in school s 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. Show more