How Parents Widen or Shrink Academic Gaps

High-income parents are often more involved with certain activities at their children's school than lower-income parents - volunteering in their children's school, attending school meetings, and so on - experiences that can link them to more opportunities and resources for their children and more influence in schools. A recent article, How Parents Widen--or Shrink--Academic Gaps(http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/04/19/how-parents-widen--or-shri…) in Education Week takes a look how those differences in parent involvement can create hidden disparities that are easy for schools to overlook but hard for poor families to overcome. If you are interested in engaging each and every family member to support their child/ren?s full participation, this article will provide some compelling evidence.