Parents, Power, and the Reform of Mathematics Education: An Exploratory Analysis of Three Urban High Schools.

Peressini, Dominic

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ERIC Number: EJ525484

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Publication Date: 1996

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Parents, Power, and the Reform of Mathematics Education: An Exploratory Analysis of Three Urban High Schools.

Peressini, Dominic

Urban Education, v31 n1 p3-28 Mar 1996

Explores the roles of parents in three urban high schools engaged in the reform of mathematics education, focusing on teachers' perceptions of parents and parents' perceptions of their children's mathematics education. At all three schools parents were involved in only a limited and passive fashion. (SLD)

Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, High Schools, Mathematics Instruction, Parent Attitudes, Parent Role, Parents, Power Structure, Teacher Attitudes, Urban Schools

Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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