This two-year qualitative study examined parental involvement, advocacy in particular, of four Arabic-speaking Muslim couples who fled Iraq to the United States as refugees. Through interviews and ethnographic observations at their homes, children's schools, religious and social…
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My study examines the experiences and perceptions of Ethiopian immigrants in Chicago particularly as they relate to their involvement in their children's schooling. Through narrative interviews I was able to hear stories of migration, education, and life changes within families …
This study examined types of parental involvement in UAE schools and determined whether parental involvement contributes to the success of “distinguished schools.” In order to answer the study's questions, interviews were conducted with principals, teachers, and parents from dis…
Parent involvement has been shown to be very important to students' academic success, yet in most schools in Saudi Arabia it has been limited to reviewing the students' lessons at home and attending parent teacher conferences. Parents cannot influence the curriculum or the polic…
The purpose of this study was to examine teachers' attitudes toward parental involvement in the elementary schools in the state of Kuwait. The sample for the study consisted of two hundred elementary teachers representing both genders (100 males and 100 females) equally. Twenty …
Lack of participation in the school by the minority parents is related to lack of support from the school to attract and to involve these parents. This ethnographic research studies the perceptions of seventeen English speaking, immigrant, minority parents regarding participatio…
No Child Left Behind requires public schools to implement parental involvement programs. This study determined if novice teachers know how to involve parents in their children's education and determined if novice teachers believe that parental involvement is important. Teachers …
The purpose of this study was to discover Turkish parents' beliefs and perceptions about their involvement in young children's education. Specifically, this study sought to assess Turkish parents': (1) motivational beliefs, including their role activity and self-efficacy beliefs…
This study examined the views of African refugee parents regarding the National Association for the Education of Young Children's (NAEYC) construct of developmentally appropriate practices (DAP) in early childhood education. Despite its wide acceptance and implementation, DAP re…
Parent involvement has an influence on children's educational engagement during the elementary years. The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of rural Turkish parents about their involvement in schooling with elementary school students based on Epstein's (1995) …
The purpose of this research is to determine successful ways schools, teachers, and classrooms can effectively foster partnerships with parents of English language learners who are recent immigrants from Russia, Uzbekistan, and Israel. As schools struggle to overcome institution…
This descriptive, embedded case study sought to explore the phenomena of how to improve and create effective partnerships between urban parents and urban schools. The study examined a novel parent involvement program in Detroit that involved over 500 urban parents. The program, …
Purpose. Poetry has always been included in the Cypriot school curriculum and it is taught in the Standard Modern Greek (SMG) dialect, which is the official language of Cyprus. Understanding poetry is therefore a major curricular objective. The purpose of this research was to in…
Examination of Saudi Arabian educational practices is scarce, but increasingly important, especially in light of the country's pace in worldwide mathematics and science rankings. The purpose of the study is to understand and evaluate parental influence on male children's science…
This research utilized a qualitative case study design implemented in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and investigated parents’ and teachers’ perceptions of using E-mail as a tool to increase parental involvement during and after school time. Specifically, this case study invo…
In 2001, Public Law 107-110, known as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, mandated that public schools become accountable for the achievement of all public school students. Included in Public Law 107-110 is a section that mandates that schools involve parents in the functionin…
There have been few times in the history of education where parents experienced the trauma they felt when schools closed in the fall of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study was to examine the lived experience of middle scho…