Home-School Relations in Traditional and New Immigrant Destinations: Opportunities and Challenges

• In Event: Roundtable Session 18.

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

In the context of changing demographics, schools across the country are serving growing numbers of immigrant families, who bring cultural, linguistic, economic and racial diversity to schools with little recent tradition of serving immigrants. In this session, we examine how efforts to involve families in these schools are influenced by this trend. First, as a point of comparison, we identify issues in the traditional gateways of California and Texas, before turning to the state of Wisconsin, an emerging destination for recent immigration. We offer insight into home-school relations in new immigrant destinations, contributing to a growing body of scholarship that situates family-school interactions within specific social, cultural, and policy contexts.

Sub Unit

• Division A - Administration / Section 4: School Contexts and Communities

Chair

• Rebecca Jane Lowenhaupt, Boston College

Papers

• Building Bridges Through Bilingualism: Approaches to Parent-Teacher Communication in the Southwest - Megan Hopkins, Northwestern University

• Access and Agency: Family-School Relations in the New Latino Diaspora - Rebecca Jane Lowenhaupt, Boston College

• Reexamining Definitions of Successful Home-School Relationships in a Context of Rapid Demographic Change - May Hara, Framingham State University

• Family-School District Relations and Educational Policy Making in New Immigrant Destinations - Erica Owyang Turner, University of Wisconsin - Madison