Promotes effective, two-way communication between parents and schools. Provides opportunities for parents to learn how to help their children succeed in school and opportunities for school staff to work with parents. Supports family-school efforts to improve student learning by reviewing progress regularly and strengthening cooperative actions. U.S. Department of education research shows that schools with properly implemented compacts like the Pledge, raise student achievement higher than at similar schools without pledges. That is why Title I, the federal law that Project Appleseed lobbied for, requires every school it serves to form a pledge.
Pledges have a greater impact on student learning than other types of home-school interactions.
Principals of schools with pledges report greater family involvement in homework and more parents reading with children at home. Best of all, schools with the greatest needs seem to benefit the most. Project Appleseed can send your schools the tool that will dramtically increase parental involvement. This cost efficient tool is the learning compact called the Parental Involvement Pledge. With the Pledge the average school district can create thousands of hours of new volunteer time with a minimum wage value that is worth tens of thousands of dollars.