The research validating parent involvement at every level speaks for itself, keep reading and see for yourself. The more extensive the parent involvement, the higher the student success. When parents are involved in their students education, those students have higher grades and test scores, better attendance, and complete homework more consistently. When parents are involved, students exhibit more positive attitudes and behavior. Students whose parents are involved in their lives have higher graduation rates and greater enrollment rates in post-secondary education.
Educators hold higher expectations of students whose parents collaborate with the teacher.
They also hold higher opinions of those parents. In programs that are designed to involve parents in full partnerships, student achievement for disadvantaged children not only improves, it can reach levels that are standards for middle class children. In addition, the children who are farthest behind make the greatest gains. Children from diverse cultural backgrounds tend to do better when parents and professionals collaborate to bridge the gap between the culture at home and the learning institution. Student behaviors such as alcohol use, violence, and anti-social behavior decrease as parent involvement increases.