Joe D'Amico, co-host of NCREL's Rural Audio Journal, talks about the research correlating parent involvement with student achievement. Excerpted from the Rural Audio Journal, volume 3, number 3, Families and Schools Together (North Central Regional Educational Laboratory, 1995).
"And for about fifteen years now, these kind of programs have been very closely scrutinized by some fairly heavy like research people, and what they found out, that no matter what economic, racial, or cultural group, whether it's rural or urban, that in fact, scores, children's educational academic achievement scores do go up when there's parent involvement, when there's good relationships between the home and the school, because those relationships serve to motivate students to achieve at the level their ability enables them to."
Development and production of this Critical Issue was a collaborative effort of the Appalachia Educational Laboratory and the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory.
Date posted: 1996