Perils and promises: Middle-class parental involvement in urban schools

American Educational Research Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 974-1004

  Cucchiara, Maia Bloomfield ^a   Horvat, Erin Mcnamara ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Parent involvement; Social class; Urban education

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951458286     PISSN: 00028312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0002831209345791     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Anyon, J. (1997). Ghetto schooling: A political economy of urban educational reform. New York: Teachers College Press.
2. Archer, J. (2005, November 15). Backers of economic integration win in Wake County, North Carolina. Education Week, 25(12), 6.
3. Bazelon, E. (2008, July 20). The next kind of integration. The New York Times. Available at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/magazine/20integration-t.html
4. Birch, E. L. (2005). Who lives downtown? (Living Cities Census series). Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.
5. Brantlinger, E. (2003). Dividing classes: How the middle class negotiates and rationalizes school advantage. New York: RoutledgeFalmer.
6. Brown, D. J. (1998). Schools with heart: Voluntarism and public education. Boulder, CO: Westview.
7. Chavkin, N. F. (Ed.). (1993). Families and schools in a pluralistic society. Albany: State University of New York Press.
8. Cucchiara, M. (2008). Re-branding urban schools: Urban revitalization, education, and marketing public schools to upper-middle-class parents. Journal of Education Policy, 23(2), 165-179.
9. Davies, D. (1993). A more distant mirror: Progress reports on a cross-national project to study family-school partnerships. Equity and Choice, 10(1), 41-46.
10. Delpit, L. (1995). Other people's children: Cultural conflict in the classroom. New York: New Press.
11. Domina, T. (2005). Leveling the home advantage: Assessing the effectiveness of parental involvement in elementary school. Sociology of Education, 78(3), 233-249.
12. Dornbusch, S., & Wood, K. (1989). Family processes and educational achievement. In W. J. Weston (Ed.), Education and the American family (pp. 66-95). New York: New York University Press.
13. Eccles, J. S., & Harold, R. D. (1993). Parent-school involvement during the early years. Teachers College Record, 94, 568-587.
14. Epstein, J. L. (1987). Parent involvement: What research says to administrators. Education and Urban Society, 19, 119-136.
15. Epstein, J. L., & Dauber, S. L. (1991). School programs and teacher practices of parental involvement in inner-city elementary and middle schools. Elementary School Journal, 91, 291-305.
16. Gold, E., Simon, E., Cucchiara, M., Riffer, M., & Mitchell, C. (2007). A Philadelphia story: Building civic capacity for school reform in privatizing system. Philadelphia: Research for Action.
17. Gottlieb, A. (2004, November). Denver foundation takes lead pushing for mixed-income schools. Catalyst Ohio. Available at http://www.catalyst-ohio.org/news/index.php?item=120&cat=23
18. Hammersley, M., & Atkison, P. (1995). Ethnography: Principles in practice. London/ New York: Routledge.
19. Harvey, D. (2007). A brief history of neoliberalism. New York: Oxford University Press.
20. Henderson, A. (1987). The evidence continues to grow: Parent involvement improves student achievement (Special report). Columbia, MD: National Commission for Citizens in Education.
21. Hirschman, A. (1970). Exit, voice, and loyalty: Responses to decline in firms, organizations, and states. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
22. Horvat, E., Weininger, E., & Lareau, A. (2003). From social ties to social capital: Class differences in the relations between school and parent networks. American Educational Research Journal, 40(2), 319-351.
23. Jan, T. (2006, November 26). School makeovers, fueled by the middle class: As parents raise funds, standards, some fear impact on diversity. Boston Globe. Metro section, p. A1.
24. Kahlenberg, R. D. (2001). All together now: Creating middle-class schools through public school choice. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.
25. Kantor, H., & Breznel, B. (1992). Urban education and the "truly disadvantaged": The historical roots of the contemporary crisis: 1945-1990. Teachers College Record, 94(2), 278-314.
26. Labaree, D. L. (2000). No exit: Public education as an inescapably public good. In L. Cuban & D. Shipps (Eds.), Reconstructing the common good in education: Coping with intractable American dilemmas. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
27. Lareau, A. (2000). Home advantage: Social class and parental intervention in elementary education. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
28. Lareau, A., & Conley, D. (Eds.). (2008). Social class: How does it work? New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
29. Lareau, A., & Horvat, E. (1999, January). Moments of social inclusion and exclusion: Race, class and cultural capital in family-school relationships. Sociology of Education, 72, 37-53.
30. Lipman, P. (2004). High stakes education: Inequality, globalization, and urban school reform. New York: RoutledgeFalmer.
31. Lipman, P. (2008). Mixed-income schools and housing: Advancing the neoliberal urban agenda. Journal of Education Policy, 23(2), 119-134.
32. Marano, H. E. (2008). A nation of wimps: The high cost of invasive parenting. New York: Broadway.
33. Maxwell, J. (1996). Qualitative research design: An interactive approach. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
34. McDonough, P. M. (1997). Choosing colleges: How social class and schools structure opportunity. New York: State University of New York Press.
35. McGrath, D., & Kuriloff, P. (1999). They're going to tear the doors off this place: Upper-middle-class parent school involvement and the educational opportunities of other people's children. Educational Policy, 13(5), 603-629.
36. Moles, O. C. (1993). Collaboration between schools and disadvantaged parents: Obligations and openings. In N. F. Chavkin (Ed.), Families and schools in a pluralistic society (pp. 21-49). Albany: State University of New York Press.
37. Muller, C. (1993). Parent involvement and academic achievement: An analysis of family resources available to the child. In B. Schneider & J. Coleman (Eds.), Parents, their children, and schools (pp. 77-112). Boulder, CO: Westview.
38. Muller, C., & Kerbow, D. (1993). Parent involvement in the home, school, and community. In B. Schneider & J. Coleman (Eds.), Parents, their children, and schools (pp. 13-42). Boulder, CO: Westview.
39. No Child Left Behind Act, 20 U.S.C. 70 § 6301 et seq. (2002).
40. Noguera, P. (2003). City schools and the American dream: Reclaiming the promise of public education. New York: Teachers College Press.
41. Reay, D. (2008). Class out of place: The White middle classes and intersectionalities of class and "race" in urban state schooling in England. In L. Weis (Ed.), The way class works. (pp. 87-99). New York: Routledge.
42. Reay, D., Hollingworth, S., Williams, K., Crozier, G., Jamieson, F., James, D., et al. (2007). "A darker shade of pale?" Whiteness, the middle classes and multi-ethnic inner-city schooling. Sociology, 41, 1041-1060.
43. Rogers, T. K. (2009, April 5). The sudden charm of public school. The New York Times. Real Estate section, p. 1.
44. Rury, J. L. (2005). Introduction: The changing social contours of urban education. In J. L. Rury (Ed.), Urban education in the United States: A historical reader (pp. 1-12). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
45. Sieber, R. T. (1982). The politics of middle-class success in an inner-city public school. Journal of Education, 164, 30-47.
46. Silberman, T., & Crain, J. (2008). Striking a balance: In support of diversity in the Wake County Public School System. Raleigh, NC: Wake Education Partnership.
47. Smith, J. L., & Lupton, R. (2008). Mixed communities: Challenges for urban education policy. Journal of Education Policy, 23(2), 99-104.
48. Stanton-Salazar, R. (1997). A social capital framework for understanding the socialization of racial minority children and youths. Harvard Educational Review, 67(1), 1-40.
49. Stanton-Salazar, R. (2001). Manufacturing hope and despair: The school and kin support networks of U.S.-Mexican youth. New York: Teachers College Press.
50. Stanton-Salazar, R., & Dornbusch, S. M. (1995). Social capital and the reproduction of inequality: Information networks among Mexican-origin high school students. Sociology of Education, 68, 116-135.
51. Sui-Chu, E. H., & Willms, J. D. (1996). Effects of parental involvement on eighth-grade achievement. Sociology of Education, 69(2), 126-141.
52. Useem, E. (1992). Middle schools and math groups: Parents' involvement in children's placement. Sociology of Education, 65(4), 263-279.
53. Varady, D., & Raffel, J. (1995). Selling cities: Attracting homebuyers through schools and housing programs. Albany: State University of New York Press.
54. Walker, V. S. (1996). Their highest potential: An African American school community in the segregated South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
55. Weeden, K. A., & Grusky, D. B. (2005). The case for a new class map. American Journal of Sociology, 111(1), 141-212.
56. Wells, A. S., & Serna, L. (1996). The politics of culture: Understanding local political resistance to detracking in racially mixed schools. Harvard Educational Review, 66, 93-118.
57. Wright, E. O. (2005). Approaches to class analysis. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.