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McLester, Susan – District Administration, 2011
The Logan Square Neighborhood Association (LSNA) is a Chicago organization that, since 1997, has conducted a successful in-depth, parent-school collaboration program in nine schools on the northwest side of the city that represent about 10,000 students, or 2.5 percent of Chicago Public Schools' (CPS) total enrollment. It is a high-minority,…
Descriptors: Parent School Relationship, Immigrants, Empowerment, Parent Education
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Agirdag, Orhan; Van Houtte, Mieke – Educational Leadership, 2011
Two innovative programs in Belgium promote both educational equity and quality as they reach out to ethnically diverse families. The Bridge Person project in Ghent addresses Belgium's immigrant achievement gap by creating meaningful relationships between schools and socially disadvantaged families. The School in Sight project in Antwerp seeks to…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Equal Education, Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement
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Gibson, Margaret A.; Hidalgo, Nicole – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background/Context: Among the children of immigrants, one of the populations placed at greatest risk of not finishing high school are the children of migrant farmworkers. Although it is difficult to track graduation rates for migrant students because of their mobility, the U.S. Department of Education estimates that only half of all migrant…
Descriptors: Migrant Education, Role Models, Graduation Rate, Mexican Americans