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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Alameda-Lawson, Tania – Children & Schools, 2014
Parent involvement (PI) programs typically represent an important improvement strategy for schools serving low-income children of color. This pilot study offers an alternative to conventional PI approaches, collective parent engagement (CPE). The study relied on a post hoc, quasiexperimental design, and data were collected from 32 low-income,…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Academic Achievement, Correlation, Minority Group Students
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Alameda-Lawson, Tania; Lawson, Michael A.; Lawson, Hal A. – Children & Schools, 2010
Social workers have pivotal roles to play in facilitating collective parent involvement in economically poor school communities. Using a community-based, participatory, and empowerment-oriented approach to social work practice and research, this study provides empirical support for this claim. It examines the narratives of 17 economically poor…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, School Social Workers