Some issues concerning school-families partnership

In Romania, the process of transition to the market economy led to social and economic alarming processes; a consequence is creating family imbalance, and parents’ decreasing involvement in children education and school-family partnership. Using focus group interview with teachers and a questionnaire addressed to parents, we studied the strategies used by secondary school teachers to cooperate with parents. An important finding of our research is school's predominant orientation to traditional strategies: 48% of parents indicated as main type of cooperation the meetings with teachers. Considering parents, teachers and children proposals, we discuss possible new strategies that could improve family-school relationship.