ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the ways in which school principals and teachers can increase parental and community involvement. Although this is a textbook for preservice teachers, the need for you to know and understand the role that school administrators play is essential because it is generally the school principal who determines the degree of parental and community involvement. Also, you will learn how minorities feel about the education of their children and how they have sometimes been wrongfully stereotyped as uncaring parents. As you read, you will come to realize that, regardless of their ethnic differences, minority parents share many of the same concerns and aspirations for their children as Caucasian Americans do.
