Parent involvement: perceptions of recent immigrant parents in a suburban school district, Minnesota

Turkish Background Families Live In Germany and Education: In Term of Families, Students, Teachers

“…The study conducted by Sarikaya (2014) indicates that one of the main reason for students' failure in terms of educational process are negative attitudes shown by parents and families staying away from school because of culture and language differences. The researches conducted by Nam and Park (2014) as well as Sarikaya (2014) are in parallel with the assertions mentioned here, which indicate that Eskici 213 the key problem encountered during the parent participation level to children education is low socialeconomic level and second problem is that education is deemed as a secondary issue. As a supportive argument for what has been asserted here, Eight Five Year Development Program (2001) had stated that, children could not continue their higher education because of their families' unconsciousness and they tend to continue in vocational institutions.…”

“…The finding of the study conducted by Ndebele (2015), that parents of students with higher socioeconomic level have higher homework participation level; this is parallel with the finding of this study that financial insufficiency is to be considered as a problem in education process. In addition to the foregoing, the study conducted by Nam and Park (2014) indicates that the education levels of mother and father affect the participation level of school activities. The study conducted by Sarikaya (2014) indicates that one of the main reason for students' failure in terms of educational process are negative attitudes shown by parents and families staying away from school because of culture and language differences.…”

Maternal parenting styles, homework help, and children’s literacy development in language minority and Finnish-speaking families

“…Common to the above studies is that Language Minority (LM) parents tend to be less educated than Majority Population (MP) parents, and this factor may affect parenting. Nam and Park (2015) studied the thoughts and practices of 106 immigrant parents and their children regarding their schools' efforts to strengthen three aspects of parental involvement: parenting, communication and learning at home. They found that mothers' educational levels correlated significantly to their children's English academic skills.…”

Preparing Students to Be Globally Competitive in the 21st Century: Exploring Educational Leaders’ Global-Mindedness and Student Achievement in North Carolina Public High Schools

“…Examples of recently created jobs include social media/online community manager, sustainability manager, and user experience manager (Kiplinger, 2011). Additionally, factors such as rapid technological innovations and the rise of a knowledge economy-forces that occur under the umbrella of globalization-are pressuring educational leaders, and others in field of education, to respond to private industry (Nam & Park, 2014).…”

“…Education macro-responses to global demands include the enhanced integration of technology in the classroom and modified curriculum expectations (Nam & Park, 2014). For example, Partnership for 21 st Century skills, an organization advocating not only 21 st century skills but also global competitiveness, offers an illustrative example of globalization's infusion into the realm of public education (Partnership for 21 st Century Skills, 2011).…”