Additionally, the more time that parents and teens spent together, the better behaved students were and the more prepared students were for class. This study also tested how high schools outreach influenced fourteen different family-school partnership indicators. According to parents of high school seniors, when high schools reached out, parents were more involved. When high school staff gave information to parents about how to help teens study, parents worked more often with their teens on homework. When high school staff contacted parents about teens academic programs, course selections, and plans after high school, parents talked with their teens more often about school.
High schools have the capacity to change the way that families support teens school success.
When high schools reach out to involve families, families are more likely to be involved in ways that support teens success through the last year of high school. Predictors of high school and family partnerships and the influence of partnerships on student success.