The purpose of this descriptive phenomenological study was to explore the Igbo Nigerian immigrant parents' lived experience with parental involvement in education of their children in the Delaware Valley. Theoretical frameworks for this study are Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory and Ogbu's cultural systems theory. The guiding research…

The past decade has seen increasing interest from U.S. policymakers and think tanks in looking across countries for educational reform strategies. At the same time, due to differences across content and culture, many researchers are skeptical of this practice of 'policy-borrowing.' This research examines the emergence of a new form,…

Background: The Response to Intervention (RTI) approach involves the use of a dynamic model built around the systematic documentation of students' response to research-based instructional interventions. Although there has been widespread implementation of RTI models for early intervention and in some cases, as a means to identify students with…