A University of New Hampshire study finds “students do much better in school when their parents are actively involved in their education.” The research is reported in “Parental Effort, School Resources, and Student Achievement,” which appears in the spring 2008 issue of the Journal of Human Resources.
“Parental effort is consistently associated with higher levels of achievement, and the magnitude of the effect of parental effort is substantial. We found that schools would need to increase per-pupil spending by more than $1,000 in order to achieve the same results that are gained with parental involvement,” Conway said.
I’ll be very interested in reading the full report to find out precisely what that $1,000 needs to be spent on.
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I twittered this post out as best post title on a blog! I have always marveled at the amount of money spent on proving the obvious. Well done!
You’d think this finding would be obvious, but then you’d be shocked by the number of schools that actively discourage parental involvement beyond PTA bake sales and times-tables practice. What’s really sad here isn’t the research, itself, but the fact that some in education continue to ignore its common-sense findings.