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PRE Research Brief Series: Student and Family Voices

It is essential that student and family voice is included in the advancement of justice in education policy and practice. The Student and Family Voices research brief series poses policy, practice, and research implications for students, parents/caregivers, educators, policymakers, school districts, nonprofits, and communities.

 

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Image captures 5 high school students involving themselves in youth organizing. This photo is centered by an African American female in the middle, surrounded by two male students on her left, and another two students, one male and one male and one female on her left.

PRE Research Brief Series: Student and Family Voices #1

This brief shares findings from a longitudinal study of six established youth organizing (YO) groups (among approximately 300 nationwide). Youth organizing engages mostly BIPOC and low-income young people in collective, youth-led work to identify and address inequities that constrain their opportunities.
Image captures an instructor in front a standing easel, training an audience of teachers.

PRE Research Brief Series: Student and Family Voices #2

The 4M framework, introduced in this brief, stems from a qualitative case study exploring the impact of a cultural broker on educators in one school located in a mid-size southern city, where >85% of the students were Black, and the majority of teachers were White. The cultural broker, who was also the school’s community school coordinator, facilitated an in-service professional development program, called Teachers Involving Parents (TIP).
Image captures an African American student hailing from rural community, sitting in front of bush in a green field adjacent to a dirt road.

PRE Research Brief Series: Student and Family Voices #3

The findings and policy recommendations presented in this brief emerge from a qualitative case study exploring the Berea Community Elementary School’s (BCES) and the Berea Independent School District’s adaptation of the dual-capacity building framework (DCBF) for family-school partnerships (Mapp & Bergman, 2019; Mapp & Bergman, 2021).
Image captures 6 African American students working together as part of their school's robotics club. The 6 students sit around the table in matching navy blue shirts, with the robots they built on the table before them.

PRE Research Brief Series: Student and Family Voices #4

This brief synthesizes findings from three studies focused on understanding how community-based organizations and youth leadership councils can shape young people’s learning, leadership, well-being, and critical consciousness.