Parent Involvement and Student Achievement

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Parent involvement has been identified through research and within the law as a key component to student success in school. This paper attempts to answer the question of whether parent involvement impacts student achievement for primary special education students with mild to moderate educational needs. Three objectives are followed in order to answer this question. They include: (1) identify successful parent involvement practices, (2) develop a plan to increase parent involvement and implement it with parents and teachers, and (3) provide professional and parent development on parent involvement to improve upon current practices.

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"Research on the effect of parent involvement on specific areas of educational achievement and with specific populations has also been conducted, particularly in the area of reading. Monique Senechal (2006) found that parent involvement has a positive impact on children's reading acquisition. More specifically she noted, "Having parents teach specific literacy skills to their children was two times more effective than having parents listen to their children read and six times more effective than encouraging parents to read to their children" (Senechal, 2006). She found that parent involvement had a positive impact for children from kindergarten to grade 3, the most critical years for reading acquisition, and that the interventions were as effective for children experiencing reading difficulties as they were for normally-developing children (Senechal, 2006). "

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