Exploring a High School Community Relations and Parent Involvement Program

Аннотация

There are few issues in education that get as much attention as the need for improvement of parental and community involvement in and support for local schools. School faculties want to know how to improve the way they work with families and community members to better meet the needs of their students and parents want to find how to best communicate with the schools to help their children succeed. Even though there is extensive research and agreement about the importance of this topic, many schools continue to labor with these partnerships. This exploratory correlational research study employed a pre-test/post-test and surveys to assess methods of improving one high school’s relations with its students, parents and, community. The hypothesis was, Implementation of a community relations and parent involvement program will improve community relations, parent involvement, participation in parent/teacher conferences, and student achievement at the high school.