Introduction / Rollande Deslandes -- Key policy questions about parent engagement recommendations from the evidence / Kenneth Leithwood -- Family-school partnership in theory and practice of the Czech schools : conflict between ideal and reality / Milada Rabusicova -- Home-school collaboration in two Chinese societies : Hong Kong and Macao / Esther Sui Chu Ho -- 'Class acts' : home-school involvement and working-class parents in the UK / Diane Reay -- Creating effective family-school partnerships in highly diverse contexts : building partnership models and constructing parent typologies / Frederik Smit and Geert Driessen -- The challenge of co-education in a disadvantaged context / Willy Lahaye, Jean-Pierre Pourtois, and Huguette Desmet -- Indigenous family and community involvement in Australian curriculum development / Neil Hooley and Maureen Ryan -- Observatory on family-school-community partnership in Spain : a longitudinal programme to promote quality in education and social development / Raquel-Amaya Martinez-Gonzalez ... [et al.] -- Using evaluation to prove and improve the quality of partnership programmes in schools / Steven B. Sheldon -- School-community collaborations and measures supporting academic achievement in two underprivileged Montreal neighbourhoods : an evaluation of processes and effects / Angèle Bilodeau ... [et al.] -- Family-school-community partnerships : what has been done? what have we learned? / Rollande Deslandes -- More than services : community organising and community schools / Mark R. Warren and Soo Hong -- Evaluation of comprehensive prevention-intervention partnership programs for school children / Mary E. Walsh and Kristin M. Wieneke -- Capturing complexity : evaluation of the Yale Child Study Center School Development Program / Christine L. Emmons and James P. Comer -- Conclusion / Rollande Deslandes.