The Impact of School Choice and Community

Download or read book The Impact of School Choice and Community written by Claire Smrekar and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1995-11-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.