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- Title
Principals in Urban Schools Under Pressure: Relations With Parents in the Era of Test-Based Accountability.
- Authors
Conwell, Jordan A.; Ispa-Landa, Simone
- Abstract
We conducted an inductive analysis of 166 interviews from a longitudinal study of 26 Chicago Public School principals. Test-based accountability pressures played a visible role in principals' views of and relations with parents. Some principals reported banning parents from classrooms based on the need to protect instructional time to raise test scores; others thought more parental involvement would help their school reach its academic goals. Viewing principals in urban schools as street-level bureaucrats who have discretion in how they implement policy demands offers a way to understand variation in principals' decisions about parent involvement.
- Subjects
SCHOOL principals; URBAN schools; PARENTING; PARENTS; BUREAUCRACY; TEST scoring
- Publication
Urban Education, 2023, Vol 58, Issue 9, p2089
- ISSN
0042-0859
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0042085920937764