Parent and Community Involvement
Choosing a School for Your Child
This publication offers parents strategies and tools for navigating the process of choosing a school. It explains some of the current options available in many communities and outlines steps in making a thoughtful choice. (Office of Innovation and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, 2005)
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Giving Parents Options: Strategies for Informing Parents and Implementing Public School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services under No Child Left Behind
This handbook provides ways for districts and states to make No Child Left Behind's public school choice and tutoring provisions work for students and families. The content of the handbook is the result of discussions with families, educators, and local and state administrators in 14 school districts across the country. Discussions focused on the challenges and successes that districts experienced in providing these options to parents. (U.S. Department of Education, 2007)
Just the Facts for New York Parents
Just the Facts is a series of fact sheets in parent-friendly language that describe key components of NCLB. Topics include: Overview of NCLB; Teacher Quality; Parent Choice; Supplemental Education Services; and Parent Involvement Policies. (New York State Education Department, 2003)
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The Mega System: A Handbook for Continuous Improvement within a Community of the School
This handbook portrays the school as a system with many parts to be continuously engineered to precision rather than a static model to be replicated. It focuses on the internal operations of a school and the community of people who have every reason to provide the best possible education for the children in their midst. The incentive for improvement lies in parents’ desire for their children to succeed and in the commitment to service of school people professionally equipped and empowered to pursue excellence in the community to which they belong. (Academic Development Institute, 2006)
A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement
This review examines the growing evidence that family and community connections with schools make a difference in student success. The authors review 51 recent studies, covering a range of perspectives and approaches. (SEDL, 2002)
Authors: Anne T. Henderson and Karen L. Mapp
Parental Involvement: Title I, Part A Non-Regulatory Guidance
The Non Regulatory Guidance (NRG) summarizes the parent involvement requirements in No Child Left Behind and provides guidance to local school districts and schools for implementing the law. The NRG is a handy guide for parent leaders to understand the roles and responsibilities of districts, schools and parents. (U.S. Department of Education, 2004)
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The School-Family Connection: Looking at the Larger Picture. A Review of Current Literature
This synthesis surveys 30 research reports on family involvement in education with an overview of new literature, a matrix of the trends across the studies, an explanation of the types of research studies included in the review, and detailed descriptions of each of the included reports. (SEDL: National Center for Family and Community Connections with Schools, 2008)
Authors: Chris Ferguson with Manica Ramos, Zena Rudo, and Lacy Wood