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Article Review Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Article 1: Schools seek to channel parent involvement by Keller, B. (2008). I decided to use this article because the Naperville school district is close to where I live. My aim of using this article is because I wanted to know the ideas and or demands of parents who are from different socio-economic status, how things are run with parents from different income brackets, and gaining more insight on how schools in this community gain the parents attention. The article explains how the high-income parents have compromised the teacher's job and the learning process because of their incessant demands. (Keller, 2008). The article states the expectations of the school and parents, discussing how ideas were adopted from the framework of Joyce L. Epstein, the head of Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. These ideas offered the parents a very flexible schedule to be involved in their child's education through holding school events on weekends to ensure the involvement of many successful parents that work over 90 hours weekly. Something that is interesting and addressed in this article is the mental contracts that parents hold schools responsible for acts that they should have handled at home. They expect by paying for tuition fee the school is accountable for their child's behavior. The article offers ideas on how to get parents involved and the ways to correspond with every parent in the school using different types of communication tools such as emails, school web pages, and or educational communication apps. In my classroom, I would prefer to use emails,
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