Parent Involvement in School
(Amherst H. Wilder Foundation © December 2009)
Parent Involvement in School: Engaging Immigrant Parents. Studies find that immigrant parents are less likely to be involved in their child’s education and school than parents born in the United States. This brief discusses the barriers to active parental involvement and describes several effective engagement strategies.
Understanding Latino Parental Involvement in Education
(The Tomás Rivera Policy Institute © September 2007)
As schools and policymakers seek to improve the educational conditions of Latinos, parental influence in the form of school involvement is assumed to play some role in shaping students’ educational experiences. Despite this national interest in parental involvement, little research has been conducted on what constitutes parental involvement in the middle and high school years. Moreover, stakeholders hold diverse definitions of parental involvement, and little attention is paid to how Latino parents, specifically, define parental involvement.
