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Parent-School Partnerships: Accounting for Parents Facing Economic Hardship and Social Marginalization

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Family-School Partnerships During the Early School Years

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The research presented in this volume demonstrates that carefully designed partnerships hold the potential to improve parents’ support for their children’s learning and children’s outcomes. This chapter considers one possible reason that these kinds of partnerships may be more effective than other parent involvement efforts: thoughtful partnerships require attention to and respect for the contexts and perspectives of families who are economically disadvantaged and often from communities of color. Partnerships provide space for schools to more fully account for how low income and economic scarcity as well as systemic racism and white supremacy affect parents and their interactions with schools and other service organizations. Continued efforts to build partnerships that are grounded in parents’ lived experiences with economic hardship and systemic marginalization may hold promise for further innovation.

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    See https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/policy/45-cfr-chap-xiii/1302-50-family-engagement

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    See https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/policy/45-cfr-chap-xiii/1302-subpart-e-family-community-engagement-program-services

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    Katherine A. Magnuson

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    Susan M. Sheridan

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Magnuson, K.A. (2022). Parent-School Partnerships: Accounting for Parents Facing Economic Hardship and Social Marginalization. In: Bierman, K.L., Sheridan, S.M. (eds) Family-School Partnerships During the Early School Years. Research on Family-School Partnerships. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74617-9_7

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