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Mr. Mercedes was a hardworking parent of two elementary school boys. He held two jobs in order to keep a roof over their heads, food on the table, and clothes on their backs. His wife watched a neighborhood infant for extra money but her job was to take care of the boys and their home. Neither had any formal education and we suspected that neither parent had finished high school. They were concerned about their boys’ education but did not know how to gain access to services in the school. They also did not know how to help them when each began to struggle with their schoolwork.
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Jensen, D.A., Tuten, J.A. (2012). Involving Parents, Caregivers, and Families. In: Successful Reading Assessments and Interventions for Struggling Readers. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137028655_10
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