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Parent- and Community-Involvement Strategies That Work (10/03/00)

The research is clear: When parents and communities are involved in schools, education improves. From New York to California, from an individual student's notebook to community-outreach programs, here are five approaches to parental and community involvement that work! Included: Five successful programs for parent and community involvement plus links to dozens of online resources!

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ADDITIONAL ONLINE RESOURCES ABOUT PARENT AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Parent Involvement in Education: A Resource for Parents, Educators, and Communities This page on the NPIN Web site links to the first chapter of a document by the State of Iowa Department of Education; seven more chapters are included.
Americans Seek to Support -- Not Abandon -- Public Schools, New PEN Poll on Community Involvement in Education Reveals This page on the LAEP Web site announces the results of a poll by the Public Education Network (PEN) taken in October 1999 that found that most Americans view community involvement as a means of improving public schools.
Project Appleseed The National Campaign for Public School Improvement offers a parental involvement pledge, parental involvement report card, and parental involvement toolbox.
Parent Involvement at the Middle School Level This article, prepared by ACCESS ERIC, details the benefits of parental involvement in children's education and offers general advice to parents about how to become involved.
Parents and Public Involvement in Schools This page from MiddleWeb, a site devoted to middle school teaching, offers an extensive list of links.
The National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education This organization, headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, offers guidelines for schools and school districts on developing family-school partnerships along with other resources.
The Future of High School Success: The Importance of Parent Involvement Programs This article by Catherine Wehlburg Hickman, Ph.D., discusses the role of parent involvement programs in the high school of the future and how parent involvement programs can help meet the changing needs of high school students and their families.
Parent and Family Involvement This page from the Pathways to School Improvement section of the U.S. Department of Education's North Central Regional Educational Laboratory offers the Trip Planner Inventory, a tool to help schools begin the school-improvement process. The site also includes links to several related essays within the Pathways section and to related resources.
Parents Ask About Parent Involvement Policies This page discusses parent involvement policies, which are a requirement for federal Title I funding. The page is also available in Spanish.
Steps You Can Take to Improve Your Children's Education This article from the Family Involvement Partnership for Learning, which is affiliated with the U.S. Department of Education, explains to parents how to become involved in their children's education.
National PTA This organization offers many resources related to parent involvement, including National Standards for Parent/Family Involvement Programs, a comprehensive study of the benefits of parental involvement in education with suggestions for parents and teachers, and Middle School/High School Parent Involvement Resource Kit, which includes suggestions of ways to get parents and students involved in their education.
Parent Engagement as a School Reform Strategy This article, from the Urban Education Web of the U.S. Department of Education, focuses on parental involvement as a strategy for transforming failing urban schools. The site includes links to ERIC abstracts of several sources quoted in the article.
The Challenges of Parent Involvement Research This 1998 ERIC Digest describes flaws in earlier studies analyzing parental involvement in education (such as unclear or inconsistent definitions of "parent involvement" and failure to isolate parent involvement from other influences) and lists study design improvements for future research.
Family Education Network This page, aimed at parents, contains information about parental involvement in education, including related topics such as preparing for parent-teacher conferences.
Extract from Children's Learning: The Parent Factor This is an extract from the chapter "The Magic Ingredient: Parent Beliefs and Attitudes" in the June 1996 report Children's Learning: the Parent Factor, provided by the Australian Parents Council, Inc. The extract concludes "that children's learning is best served when parents see themselves as partners with teachers in the education process."
The Relationship Between Parent Involvement and Student Achievement: A Review of the Literature This paper was prepared to provide background information to participants in the March 1993 Illinois Summit on Parent Involvement sponsored by the Office of the Governor and the Illinois State Board of Education. The site includes an extensive list of resources used in preparation of the report.
Parent Involvement This page from the Alachua County Council of PTAs and PTSAs of Gainesville, Florida, provides a good discussion of the benefits of parent involvement and names specific goals parental involvement can achieve. The site includes many links to related material.
Family Involvement This compendium from the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Education, has articles about successful parent-involvement programs and a descriptive listing of curriculum resources.
The Evidence Continues to Grow: Parent Involvement Improves Student Achievement This is an ERIC abstract of an annotated bibliography prepared in 1987 by the National Committee for Citizens in Education of Columbia, Maryland. The bibliography cites 49 studies of the effects of parent involvement on children's academic achievement and the performance of schools.
The Power of Parent Partnership: Setting a High Standard for Parent Involvement Projects Will Boost Student Achievement This article, by Anne T. Henderson, Karen Jones, and Beverly Raimondo, describes Commonwealth Institute for Parent Leadership, an organization created in Kentucky to help schools set standards and guidelines for promoting parent involvement. The site includes a Parent Involvement Project Scoring Guide.
Families and Learning This page, a project of the University of Minnesota Children, Youth, and Family Consortium, offers lots of resources about family and community involvement in education. The site includes Parent and Family Involvement Resources from the Center for Law and Education.
Bibliography: Parental and Community Involvement This is a long list of publications about parental and community involvement.
Public Education Network This is the home page of the Public Education Network, which calls itself "the nation's largest network of community-based school reform organizations."
How to Inform and Involve Parents This page from Inspiring Teachers is aimed at beginning teachers. It includes a list of ways to involve parents in the classroom and tips for teachers on how to prepare a newsletter for parents.

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