What Constitutes Effective Parental Involvement? «

What Constitutes Effective Parental Involvement? «:

What Constitutes Effective Parental Involvement?

December 1, 2011 by Irene Sege

Photo: Alessandra Hartkopf for Strategies for Children

Children whose parents are involved in their education perform better. They earn better grades, are absent less often, have better social skills, and are more likely to graduate from high school and attend college. This is the well-established rationale for encouraging parental engagement. Yet what does effective effective family engagement mean?

A recent report – “Back to School: How Parent Involvement Affects Student Achievement” — from the Center for Public Education (CPE) summarizes the data. “Do all the PTA meetings, take-home flyers and Back to School nights actually generate