Teaching practices and strategies to involve inner-city parents at home and in the school

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 221-234

  Lewis, Leontye L ^a   Kim, Yanghee A ^b   Ashby Bey, Juanita ^b,c  

^a FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Criminal Justice and Applied Social and Political Sciences Department   (United States)

^c BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Parental involvement; Teaching practice; Teaching strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649317476     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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