*"Some Parents Just Don't Care": Decoding meanings of Parental Involvement in Urban Schools

Dorothy Lightfoot: Urban Education : 2004 39:91This article looks at the way language subtly shapes and constrains the way we perceive reality. It examines one term—parental involvement. This apparently simple and democratic term serves as a portfolio of meanings that separate and divide. It illustrates two of these meanings, which take the form of a conjoined metaphor of “full/empty,” or “lacking/having.”