Wilkerson, David A.Kim, Hea-Won2022-09-092022-09-092010-09-28Wilkerson, D., & Kim, H.-W. (2010). “We Have a Lot of Sleeping Parents”: Comparing Inner-City and Suburban High School Teachers’ Experiences with Parent Involvement. Advances in Social Work, 11(2), 144–157. https://doi.org/10.18060/388https://hdl.handle.net/1805/29971Teachers’ experiences with parent involvement were compared at an inner-city high school and a suburban high school. Parent involvement has been described as underutilized by teachers, due to either ideological barriers or cultural biases against parents of lower socio-economic status. A sample of 62 teachers found no significant group differences between teachers at the two schools for either problematic or collaborative parent involvement. There was a significant difference for beliefs about parent competency. Results may suggest that the ideological barrier of a “protective model” for home/school relations devalues parent involvement for teachers. Parent involvement may be further devalued for inner-city teachers, who hold beliefs that parent competence is reduced by socioeconomic challenges.enschool social workInner-city high schoolsparent involvementArticle