Parents and teachers: building bridges for the future

The slogan of the New South Wales Department of Education for 1995 and 1996)is "Schools Parents and Community: Teaching and Learning Together." This article is an account of a recent study conducted into the nature of school, parent and community links in an urban community about ten kilometres from the centre of Sydney. The study was particularly interested in whether such links provided an improved context for "teaching and learning together", though this is a tough question to answer.