Making homework work at home: the parent's perspective.
This article views homework through the eyes of parents in a rural area whose children with disabilities spent a majority of their time in general education classrooms. The qualitative analysis of data from individual interviews, focus groups, and parent action research logs yielded five themes: (a) Parents felt ill-prepared to help their children with homework; (b) parents wanted more information about the classroom teachers' expectations of their child and of their roles as parents in helping with homework; (c) parents wanted their children to be given individualized homework assignments; (d) parents valued hands-on homework and projects in which the whole family could participate; and (e) parents wanted a two-way communication system that would allow them to become partners on their child's instructional team.
Kay
P J
PJ
College of Education and Social Services, University of Vermont, Burlington 05405.
Fitzgerald
M
M
Paradee
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C
Mellencamp
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D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D007859:Learning Disabilities; D010290:Parents; D012424:Rural Population; D012574:Schools; D013334:Students