Publications

Publication details [#50312]

Brown, Lionel H. and Kelvin S. Beckett. 2007. Parent Involvement in an Alternative School for Students at Risk of Educational Failure. Education and Urban Society 39 (4) : 498–523.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | family role | language and culture | remedial education | teacher

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Annotation

This study discusses middle-class White American teachers' and African American and urban Appalachian parents' efforts to build and sustain an efficient remedial school, consisting in a home-school learning community, for at risk elementary and middle school students.