The governing parent-citizen: dividing and valorising parent labour through school governance

Governing Communities: the Real Possibilty of Parent Choice in Schooling

In Australia since the 1970s there has been an invitation to parents to participate as partners with teachers in their children’s schooling. This invitation, explicitly expressed in the Karmel Report in 1973, has been repeated in many forms throughout the decades of the 1980s and 1990s, leading parents to believe that they are entitled to a say in how their children are schooled. Emanating from...

ADHD Parent–Pediatrician Letters to the School

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PARENT PREFERENCES AND PARENT CHOICES The Public-Private Decision about School Choice

School Success, Possible Selves, and Parent School Involvement*

Increased parent school involvement is associated with better academic outcomes; yet, proximal contributors to this effect remain understudied. We focus on one potential proximal contributor, youth’s positive and negative future self-images or ‘‘possible selves,’’ reasoning that if parent school involvement fosters possible selves, then interventions aimed at enhancing youths’ possible selves s...

Measuring parent perceptions of school climate.

Parents' attitudes about their children's schools matter. Their views can shape their children's attitudes about school, affect their levels of family-school engagement, and influence their residential and school enrollment decisions. In this article, we describe the development of a survey scale to assess parent perceptions of the climate of their child's school. Our comprehensive scale develo...