IN TODAYS highly competitive economic environment, academic success at school has become more critical than ever.
Locally and globally, the competition for jobs and access to higher education is increasingly demanding and challenging. While schools play a vital role in shaping a childs education, research suggests that parental involvement can significantly enhance a students academic performance.
The Coleman Report, a landmark study on educational opportunity, posited that the inequality of educational opportunity appears to stem primarily from the home and the cultural influences surrounding it, suggesting that non-school factors, such as family and neighbourhood characteristics, may be more consequential for student outcomes than school factors alone.
One example of how families and schools can reinforce one another is through parental involvement in a childs education.
The notion that parents play a key role in childrens educational success has become widely accepted and parental involvement has been a major component of school reform efforts and federal education policies over the past two decades.
