largest-ever study of how parental involvement affects academic achievement... Most measurable forms of parental involvement seem to yield few academic dividends for kids, or even to backfire - regardless of a parent’s race, class, or level of education... Other essentially useless parenting interventions: observing a kid’s class; helping a teenager choose high-school courses; and, especially, disciplinary measures such as punishing kids for getting bad grades or instituting strict rules about when and how homework gets done. one of the few ways parents can improve their kids’ academic performance - by as much as eight points on a reading or math test - is by getting them placed in the classroom of a teacher with a good reputation... Given that the best teachers have been shown to raise students’ lifetime earnings and to decrease the likelihood of teen pregnancy, this is no small intervention.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 13:05:39 +0000