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Practicing Parental Involvement: Heterogeneity in Parent Involvement Structures in Charter and Traditional Public Schools
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Boylan, Rebecca L.; Petts, Amy; Renzulli, Linda; Domina, Thurston; Murray, Brittany – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2021
Purpose: This study examines differences in the mechanisms that charter schools and traditional public schools use to facilitate parental school involvement and the degree to which these differences account for the high levels of involvement among charter school parents. Data and Research Methods: We merge data from principals and teachers from…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Charter Schools, Public Schools, Differences
Is Music Teacher Professional Development Becoming More Effective? Evaluating Practice and Policy in the United States, 1993-2012
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West, Justin J. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2021
The purpose of this study was to evaluate music teacher professional development (PD) practice and policy in the United States between 1993 and 2012. Using data from the nationally representative Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) spanning these 20 years, I examined music teacher PD participation by topic, intensity, relevance, and format; music…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Faculty Development, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
Linking the Process and Outcomes of Parent Involvement Policy to the Parent Involvement Gap
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Marschall, Melissa J.; Shah, Paru R. – Urban Education, 2020
This study compares what schools are doing to engage parents and analyzes the efficacy of these initiatives across predominantly Black, Latino, and White schools. Using the National Center for Education Statistics's (NCES) Schools and Staffing Surveys (SASS, 1999-2004), we specify a model that accounts both for factors associated with school…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Educational Policy, Program Effectiveness, Minority Groups
Services to Support Parent Involvement by Community Type, Sector, and School Classification. Data Point. NCES 2018-063
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Quirk, Abigail – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
Public and private school principals were asked to report whether their school had a staff member assigned to work on parent involvement; workshops or courses for parents or guardians; services to support parent participation such as providing child care or transportation; or a parent drop-in center or lounge. The Principal Questionnaire was…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Public Schools, Private Schools