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Involvement by parents, families and communities in children’s education supports student achievement and high-quality schools. Increased involvement leads to more motivated, resilient students, fuels higher educational aspirations and helps young people reach their full potential.

 
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tactics for giving to support student achievement
  • Support immigrant and low-income parents and communities in navigating the school system and building the knowledge—including leadership skills—to help English-Language Learners (ELL) and other low-income students succeed
  • Support early learning programs aligned with state and local kindergarten-readiness and P-3 work 
  • Support greater collaboration between schools and informal STEM education providers in order to boost student interest and achievement in STEM fields 
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High school dropouts, on average, earn $9,200 less per year than high school graduates, and about $1 million less over a lifetime than college graduates.
Success Story
Basic Computer Classes Help Low-income Parents Manage Their Children's Education
New Futures provides a broad range of services for children and families in four low-income apartment complexes in South King County. Ninety percent of the families served by New Futures don’t have computers at home, and even more of them are recent immigrants or refugees who struggle with language barriers. For these parents, getting involved in their children’s education is a daunting notion. To encourage the use of computers as a tool for managing their children’s education—for emailing teachers, learning about school events and even monitoring grades and attendance—New Futures offers basic computer classes for parents. The organization also brings school representatives in to meet with parents and provides family advocates who accompany parents to school meetings and help them contact teachers as needed.
Stay Informed:

How Mercer Middle School soared after struggling
The remarkable turnaround at Asa Mercer Middle has Seattle School Board members paying close attention. The school's success could significantly influence policies across the district.
One Region's Cradle-to-College Approach
The year-old Community Center for Education Results has galvanized hundreds of key civic players to build a road map toward improving education, cradle to college, in South King County.
Pathways to Prosperity
The Pathways to Prosperity Project examines the reasons for our failure to prepare so many young adults, and advances an exciting vision for how the United States might regain the leadership in educational attainment it held for over a century.
Opening Doors to Student Success
This 12-page policy brief describes the different strategies tested, discusses what MDRC has learned from Opening Doors, and offers some suggestions to policymakers and practitioners for moving forward.
Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements through 2018
America is slowly coming out of the Recession of 2007—only to find itself on a collision course with the future: not enough Americans are completing college.

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