Latinx Family Engagement in Schools and Surrounding Communities: Assessing the Impact of Parent (and Other Family Member) Development on Improving Student Educational Outcomes at Gene Ward Elementary School

Authors

Rosemary Q. Flores, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Phyllis Morgan, Gene Ward Elementary School
Linda Rivera, Department of Interior
Christine Clark, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-18-2019

Publication Title

Edcation Sciences

Publisher

MDPI

Volume

9

Issue

2

First page number:

1

Last page number:

9

Abstract

This article examined the success of broadly defined family engagement activities of Latinx parents of students at Gene Ward Elementary School. Gene Ward Elementary School is a part of the Clark County School District in Las Vegas, Nevada. This article is based on a larger study of parent and family member participants in these activities at 25 district schools between 2003 and 2012.

Keywords

Latinx family engagement; Family engagement in schools; Race; Education

Disciplines

Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education

File Format

pdf

File Size

258 KB

Language

English

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Repository Citation

Flores, R. Q., Morgan, P., Rivera, L., Clark, C. (2019). Latinx Family Engagement in Schools and Surrounding Communities: Assessing the Impact of Parent (and Other Family Member) Development on Improving Student Educational Outcomes at Gene Ward Elementary School. Edcation Sciences, 9(2), 1-9. MDPI.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci9020149