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    know being an authoritative parent could have a great result on a child’s education? Author Anita Woolfolk states that authoritative parents set clear limits, enforce rules, and expect mature behavior (Woolfolk, 92).  According to author Laura Desimone, many different types of parenting practices and behaviors have been associated with positive student outcomes, including authoritative parenting (Desimone, 12). Desimone also states that in the United States parent involvement has become a critical element

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    Positive relationships between parents and school exert significant influences on the essential foundations of support for children’s learning and development. Children develop within multiple frameworks; therefore, advancement and learning are optimized when schools establish networks with parents. The purpose of this qualitative, multi-site case study was to examine levels of parent involvement and the impact it had on academic achievement among students attending a high poverty, rural school.

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    Parental Involvement: Impact on a Child’s Education Student’s Name University Affiliation Parental Involvement: Impact on a Child’s Education Providing for a family is a challenging task in today’s world. Parents work long hours to pay bills and ensure that their children live a comfortable life. As a result, most parents return home tired and with little energy or time to follow up on their children’s educational progress. Some parents delegate all educational

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    Parental Involvement and the Effect it Has on School Grades Jacob Ryder Saint Leo University Abstract This study will examine the effects that parental involvement at home has on school grades. The level of parental involvement is a multidimensional aspect. Examples include setting rules, maintaining open lines of communication with children in order to help with school work or social situations, monitoring children’s activities both in and out of school, holding high educational standards

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    Introduction Previous studies and have proven that school-aged children whose parents and or guardians who are active and involved in their early learning experiences are more likely to be successful in school than children who parents and guardians are not. As cited in The Concept of Parental Involvement (2007), Joep T.A. Bakker and Eddie Denessen offer various definitions of parental involvement. They summarize parental involvement as “parental behaviors related to child’s school or schooling that can

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    scholars continue to find a persistent and widespread belief among some teachers that low-income African-American and Latino parents do not want to be involved in their children's education. Scholarship conducted over the past 35 years has shown consistently that levels and types of parent involvement depend on the socioeconomic status of parents and teachers. Gaps in parent involvement reflect profound differences in the role education plays in the lives of many working-class and middle-class families

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    Introduction Parental Involvement Children are our future leaders, doctors, and more. They need to be taught everything they will need to have success throughout their lives. Parents are known to be the first natural teachers of their children (Sad & Gurbuzturk, 2013). Over the past few decades, researchers have become increasingly concerned with parental involvement in their children’s education. The current idea of learning appears to be focused on developing the entire child through emotional

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    Academic Effects of Active Parental Involvement Findings demonstrate that parent involvement in a child’s learning is positively related to their achievement. The first teachers of our children are the adults in the home. This is where the children learn their attitudes and values that are engraved in them for the remainder of their lives. When families as a whole participate, in children’s education in positive ways, there are noticeable changes in the child’s test scores, attendance records

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    Introduction and Purpose In the article Parental involvement in children’s learning: Comparing parents of children with and without Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) by M.A Rogers et al, the group of graduate students studied parental involvement in children’s learning with and without ADHD. Rogers et al indicated that parental involvement in children’s learning has a variety of behaviors and characteristics. These characteristics vary based on the mother and father’s interactions

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    Je Assignment One: Family Involvement Jessica Cunha Anna Koloszyc CLD 364 Monday, February 7th, 2011 Families are involved in their children’s learning through many different means. Parents are greeted by the kindergarten teachers at morning drop off and at the end of the day for dismissal and if any information needs to be disclosed or discussed the teachers and parents will take that opportunity to communicate with each other. Communication to families is also done through letters that

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