This research delves into how educational renewable energy (RE) is perceived within Arab society. The research group consists of parents of middle school students who studied renewable energy in the Israeli science teaching curriculum. It posits three hypotheses, two of which were upheld, and one was refuted. The study highlights low-to-moderate…

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic affected children with intellectual disabilities and their parents in numerous ways. This study investigates the impact by analysing the narratives of their parents in the city of Guwahati, located in Assam, a northeastern state of India. The study contributes to the scholarship on intellectual disability in…

Parental and teacher expectations for students' academic performance, expressed as confidence in students' academic potential, may play a critical role in fostering holistic development. However, the specific mechanisms through which these perceived expectations influence academic motivation and psychosocial well-being remain underexplored. This…

Our study investigates how teacher-parent relationships were influenced by the shift to distance learning during the Gaza-Israel war in 2023, from the perspective of Arab-Bedouin educators. The research is based on a qualitative analysis of interviews with 20 elementary school teachers from the Arab-Bedouin education system in unrecognised…

Background/purpose: Financial literacy is essential for adolescents navigating complex digital finance. However, gaps persist due to inconsistent formal education, varied parental influence, and uncritical digital exposure. This study explores the financial education experiences, financial management behaviors, and digital financial misconceptions…

This study explores the role of parental ideologies in heritage language (HL) maintenance among three interlingual families in New Zealand. This study draws on data from semi-structured interviews with Korean immigrant mothers and non-Korean fathers. A thematic approach was used to analyze the data. The findings in this study revealed that the…

This study explored the relationships between parent goals, child goal orientations, and academic procrastination, with a focus on gender differences. Participants included 568 boys and 622 girls and their parents from three Chinese primary schools. In both boy and girl models, parents' goals positively predicted children's corresponding goal…

This book explores how parents became education partners in new and unexpected ways during the COVID pandemic. Emerging from a range of research studies, it reframes how researchers, educators, school leaders, and policymakers can establish and foster more equitable partnerships with families. The authors ultimately argue that COVID schooling…

Purpose: Access to intervention is a barrier for children with autism. As parent-mediated interventions have emerged to address this need, understanding implementation components contributing to child gains is critically important. Existing literature documents relationships between parent treatment adherence and child progress; however, less is…

Bullying is a public health concern warranting policy-level responses. Toward this end, states are enacting antibullying policies that require schools to be inclusive of parents. The current study examines parent-related challenges as schools implement newly amended antibullying legislation in Connecticut. School personnel data were analyzed from…

In this article, we will highlight an overview of a project that we facilitated with colleagues that encouraged immigrant youth and members of their families to share photographs that they took and stories that they wrote with fellow students in their school, their teachers, with members of their own student and cultural communities, and with…

Science fairs have been around for decades, yet their critics question the extent to which parent involvement shapes students' investigations and creates inequitable experiences. Parent involvement in the science fair has been viewed as objectionable by parents themselves. However, research has shown that parent support can play a vital role in…

The policy and educational ideal of parent-school engagement rests on assumptions about effective communication with parents about children's educational progress and well-being. Yet communication between school and home varies, and can be a source of parental satisfaction "and" frustration. Here we consider perspectives of Australian…

This is an evaluation of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) Family and Community Engagement (FACE) program. The FACE program is designed to support parent and schools and promote effective family and community engagement in every HISD school. FACE provides or promotes training and professional development, community partnerships,…

Parents across the country continue to be concerned about their children's academic and social-emotional well-being. Some parents are sufficiently satisfied with their children's school and are content with a return to a pre-pandemic normal. Other parents are sufficiently dissatisfied and have already made a change, whether between schools, to…