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Engaged to Achieve: A Community Perspective on How Parents are Engaged in their Children's Education
A report released today by the National Urban League Washington Bureau “Engaged to Achieve: A Community Perspective on How Parents are Engaged in Their Children’s Education,” showed that race plays a pervasive—and negative—role in perceptions of parent engagement and student achievement; but community-based efforts to bridge racial disparities are associated with greater parent engagement—regardless of race.
Engaged to Achieve: A Community Perspective on How Parents are Engaged in Their Children’s Education is based on a survey conducted in partnership with the National Voices Project (www.NationalVoicesProject.org) (NVP). Findings reveal that when there was a difference in how parents were perceived, African-American parents were more commonly perceived as being less aware and less involved in their children’s education than white parents. Report authors suggest that when these perceived disparities are not addressed constructively, they may affect the type and depth of parent engagement efforts directed to low-income parents and parents of color.
