Parental Involvement in the Reform of Mathematics Education

Abstract

High Schools across the nation have been, and are, engaged in efforts to implement the recommendations in the three Standards documents of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (1989, 1991, 1995). These efforts continue in the context of a larger educational-reform movement that spans all content areas (Fullan 1991; U.S. DOE 1994a). Many of the more recent reform documents, which point the direction for this movement, call for increaes in parental involvement and the promotion of partnerships between schools and communities (National Parent-Teacher Association 1994; U.S. DOE 1994a, 1994b). These aims are apparent in the U.S. DOE's national goals for the year 2000 (U.S. DOE 1994a):