This study examines parental decision-making in a Metro Detroit school district undergoing integration efforts, focusing on why families choose to stay or leave. The findings suggest notable racial disparities: Black families often left involuntarily due to misleading choice policies, while White families chose to leave, citing concerns about…

The COVID-19 pandemic offered a unique circumstance for the mass utilisation of digital learning in compulsory education. Official stakeholders in Greece perceived this as a success story leading to Law 5128/2024. The legislation seeks to utilise digitally mediated classrooms focusing on the incorporation of digitalisation into the educational…

School choice policies continue to expand across the globe. Advocates insist that the opportunity to decide where one's children will learn is more equitable and socially responsive. However, these sentiments are widely disputed. In this study I emphasize that school choice is another venue where families experience uneven amounts of privilege.…

Despite the clear restrictive guidelines about the use of modern handheld devices among children younger than 2 years, parents are seen to extensively use these devices with their infants. However, parents' perceptions in this regard remain unclear and underexplored especially, in the context of South Asian cultures such as Pakistan. This…

"Raising a Nation" offers a new framework for thinking about a comprehensive, inclusive child care system: one that supports families in all their diversity, whether they want to utilize a licensed child care program, family member, or have a parent as the primary child care provider. Thanks to a history of neglect, child care in America…

Background: Family-school partnerships (FSPs) play an important role in supporting child health and well-being. The current study aimed to develop and validate a psychometrically sound instrument to assess FSPs within the context of child health. Methods: The instrument was developed through a mixed-methods three-phased approach, including pilot…

Drawing from personal stories and current research, this book suggests ways in which families and schools can work together to optimize the academic, social, and emotional development of all students, with a focus on diverse students and families. Utilizing their unique backgrounds as professional educators, scholars, parents, and immigrants, the…

Background/purpose: Muslim parents in the Deep South of Thailand prefer to send their children to Islamic private schools, expecting that they would simultaneously accumulate Islamic and secular knowledge and become devout Muslims. This study employed a future-oriented research design to explore parents' and alumni's expectations of Islamic…

Genetic and environmental factors account for variability in a range of developmental outcomes, including socioeconomic status (SES). The challenge is to find ways to incorporate genetic information based on studies using biologically related family members (i.e., studies not involving twins). To address this issue, we computed polygenic scores…

The goal of the present study was to investigate the relationship between parental acculturation attitudes and second language (L2) skills and acquisition in immigrant children and to identify the mechanisms that potentially mediate between parental acculturation attitudes and children's L2 skills and acquisition. Our longitudinal study is based…

Young children use, engage with, and experience digital technologies in their home and early childhood settings, yet their presence and use can be fraught with tensions and uncertainties. This paper reports on an Australian study focusing on how early childhood teachers perceive and manage parental concerns about their child's digital technology…

COVID-19 has caused increased stress among U.S. adults, with many reporting concerns assisting their children with distance learning due to school closures. This study surveyed U.S. parents--most of whom were middle-aged, White, affluent, and female--to learn what types of distance learning activities parents engaged in with their children during…

In the United States, where public pre-K has recently undergone rapid expansion, pre-K policies often include a mandate for parent involvement. We analyze a pre-K parent involvement policy in the state of Michigan, demonstrating the ways mid-level administrators appropriated the policy. We show how the silences and tensions embedded in the policy…

This paper reports Turkish and Chinese parents' experiences with their 3-6 year-old children during the COVID-19 quarantine process. Thirteen Turkish and 11 Chinese parents participated in a study that employed semi-structured interviews to examine participant self-perceived experiences. Findings show that the study revealed many commonalities in…

This small-scale study examines the experiences encountered by a group of parents in their endeavours to support their children to settle and thrive, both in family life and school. The study identifies how a 'complex tapestry of relationships' exists both within and beyond adoptive families, which influences children's developmental and…