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EJ411969 HE526906
Title: How Home-School Relations Policies Can Increase Educational Inequality: A Three-Year Follow-Up.Author(s): Toomey, Derek
Source: Australian Journal of Education, v33 n3 p284-98 Nov 1989
Publication Date: 1989
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJDEC1990
A study of
the effect of parent-school relationship improvement efforts on
student achievement examined operation of home-reading programs
in five disadvantaged Australian primary schools. Advantages in
reading achievement for the children (n=140) persisted for children
of high-contact and high-support parents after three years. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy; Disadvantaged; Elementary Education;
*Family Influence; Foreign Countries; Home Study; *Parent Participation;
*Parent School Relationship; *Reading Ability; Reading Instruction;
*School Policy; *Teacher Expectations of Students
Identifiers: *Australia
