Parents Researching and Reclaiming “Parent Involvement”

For the past eight years I have worked with parents in neighborhood schools in a large urban school district, teaching writing workshops and leading community research and evaluation projects. I do this work through a small, university-based program called the Community Writing and Research Project (CWRP). The CWRP partners with schools and community organizations to offer personal narrative writing workshops, publish magazines of participants' writings, organize public readings, and teach participants to become writing workshop teachers. We also provide training and guidance to parents, teachers, staff of community organizations, and other local groups in conducting participatory research. School-based research projects are defined, designed, and carried out by the parents and other neighborhood residents, who are the project researchers or program evaluators

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• The Value of Hard Work

  Gerardo R López, Gerardo Lopez•Harvard Educational Review•2001

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