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your experience on this site better. Transforming Schools
Through Community Organizing: A Research Review M. Elena Lopez
Community organizing engages parents in poor performing schools
to improve children's educational outcomes. Although standard
parent involvement practices such as monitoring children's
homework, reading to them, and volunteering in schools are
linked to students' positive academic and behavioral outcomes
(Jordan, Orozco, & Averett, 2001), they are oftentimes
insufficient to boost the achievement of low-income children in
troubled schools. Parents in these failing schools realize that
although they are responsible for supporting children's
learning, schools are responsible for providing a quality
education (Zachary & olatoye, 2001). Poor school performance,
high dropout rates, lack of qualified teachers,