Her recent and ongoing projects include Project PASS (Promoting Academic Success for Students), a longitudinal study between kindergarten and 4th grade examining family related predictors of children's early school performance, and Project Alliance / Projecto Alianzo, a multiethnic, longitudinal study of
parental involvement in education at the transition between elementary and middle school.
Arlington, Va — America's corporate executives must encourage school reforms and
parental involvement in education if they are to ensure a steady supply of technologically literate employees, the head of a major corporation told educators last week.
Based on research from another AERA Open article published today, Reardon said that changes
in parental involvement in education may have contributed to the change in income - based and race - based kindergarten readiness gaps.
It is easy enough to keep one's children in a safe place; they probably already enjoy disproportionate educational and other institutional advantages over others, and you probably already read to them and engage in other forms of
close parental involvement in education, so they can most easily afford some time off from school; and you are probably well - protected by insurance.
We know that children in schools with fewer resources, a larger percentage of teachers that are new or have emergency certificates, and
lacking parental involvement in their education are not receiving the excellent early education they deserve.
As the study notes, there is already significant evidence of positive associations between some parenting practices (such as warmth) and depressive symptoms, but this is among the first evidence that specific types
of parental involvement in education may build emotional resilience.
Barriers to
parental involvement in education: An explanatory model.
Mastery orientation can be encouraged through positive parenting techniques and
parental involvement in education.
In the study, published late last year in Child Development [PDF], Hill and her colleagues looked at five strategies of
parental involvement in education and assessed their impact on academic, behavioral, and mental health outcomes for children in middle and high school.
Understanding the deep - rooted importance of family and
parental involvement in education and its effect on the academic performance of a child requires recognizing the fact that parents are childrens first teachers.
She has spoken to parent groups, teachers, administrators, business leaders and policy makers on a range of issues: education reform, early childhood and adolescent literacy, conflict and tolerance, and the value of
parental involvement in education.
«Barriers to
parental involvement in education: An explanatory model.»
Parental involvement in education is the participation of parents in regular, two - way, and meaningful communication involving students» academic learning and other school activities.
Though research demonstrates that
parental involvement in education is associated with higher academic achievement in students (Jeynes 2012), the perceived barrier in much of K — 12 education between the importance of academics and the ability for families to adequately supplement this school learning serves to create a split between families and their children's education (Heath et al. 2014).