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Publication Date: 2005
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African American Parents before and after Brown
Fields-Smith, Cheryl
Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, v20 n2 p129-135 Win 2005
Empirical evidence demonstrates that parents' involvement in their children's education has a strong and positive association with student achievement. As a result, school policies have encouraged and mandated parental involvement for decades. However, 50 years after the Brown decision, the discourse on parental involvement tends to favor the perspectives of white, middle-income families and to marginalize the views regarding African American parental involvement. In fact, teachers often perceive African American parents as uninvolved and disinterested in their children's education. Such negative perceptions disdain historical portraits of African American parents. This paper offers a pre- and post-Brown retrospective on African American parental involvement. I compare historical portrayals of African American parents in the South to findings from a recent qualitative investigation of African American parental involvement in a school district in the southeastern United States. Findings illuminate the important role of trust in the homeschool relationship.
Descriptors: Parent Participation, African Americans, Educational History, Academic Achievement, Parent School Relationship, Trust (Psychology), Teacher Attitudes, School Policy, Comparative Analysis, Racial Bias, United States History, Desegregation Litigation
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