WAYS TO MEASURE

• Parent attended conferences
• Parent attended a school event
• Parent volunteered or served on committee
• Teachers reporting lack of parent involvement is moderate or serious problem

WHAT THE DATA SHOWS

Information may not be available districtwide.  Parent participation data
may be reported in School Continuous Improvement Plans (SCIP) (see right sidebar)

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Spring 2005 - "The Contribution of Parenting to Ethnic and Racial Gaps in School Readiness," Examines ethnic and racial differences in seven different parenting behaviors: nurturance, discipline, teaching, language, monitoring, management, and materials.

"Racial and ethnic differences in parenting in large part parallel racial and ethnic differences in school readiness. When such parenting differences are controlled, the gaps in school readiness drop 25 percent to 50 percent." (page 157)

Extracted from "School Readiness: Closing Racial and Ethnic Gaps," The Future of Children, The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and The Brookings Institution. [Requires free registration.]