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Shifting Parents From Respondents To Partners: New Paths To School Involvement, Andrew S. Pierskalla
Shifting Parents From Respondents To Partners: New Paths To School Involvement, Andrew S. Pierskalla
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Consensus among researchers is that parent involvement strengthens student grades (Ross, 2016). The purpose of this phenomenological study is to explore new strategies between parents and schools to foster continued parent involvement. Through qualitative design of surveys, focus-groups, and document review, this study explores strategies utilized of parent involvement at the high school level. The setting for this study is a suburb community in Minnesota. The high school has a student population that exceeds 2,300 (Minnesota Department of Education, 2019). The sample for this study will consist of parents that have at least one current student at the high school. …