Does Parental Involvement Matter?

A new study of low-income schools in California has raised some eyebrows by concluding that, when it comes to student achievement, parental involvement is less important than a number of school-based instructional factors.

The report’s authors, however, have hastened to discount media coverage of their research suggesting that parental involvement is not...

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