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Beauregard, France; Petrakos, Harriet; Dupont, Audrey – School Community Journal, 2014
The immigrant population is increasing steadily every year in Canada and in Quebec, in particular. The immigrant population is made up largely of families, most of whom have school-age children. However, we have little information on the practices these parents adopt when they become involved in their children's schooling. In this study, 28…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Parent Participation, Educational Practices
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Stillisano, Jacqueline R.; Waxman, Hersh C.; Brown, Danielle B.; Alford, Beverly L. – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2014
This study focused on the unique qualities of selected college access centers established in Texas high schools with the dual goal of assisting students with college preparation activities and of creating a school-wide college going culture. Six centers demonstrating estimable outcomes on at least one of several different variables were…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Access to Education, High Schools, College Preparation
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Spoth, Richard; Guyll, Max; Lillehoj, Catherine J.; Redmond, Cleve; Greenberg, Mark – Journal of Community Psychology, 2007
This study examined a community-university partnership model for sustained, high-quality implementation of evidence-based interventions. In the context of a randomized study, it assessed whether implementation quality for both family-focused and school-based universal interventions could be achieved and maintained through community-university…
Descriptors: Evidence, Intervention, School Community Programs, Partnerships in Education