Increasing Parent Involvement in the Urban High School
Cheryl White
July 2003
This research study discusses the decline of parents as the key players in the education of
children and the various types of involvement that parents can offer to their children and
the school, and indicates that lack of parent involvement can lead to lack of student
achievement. This study also explains the importance of parent involvement, the role of
parents in the education arena, and the barriers that cause parent involvement to decrease.
Additionally, while the barriers to parent involvement are described, the study also
explores and identifies interventions that can improve parent involvement in the urban
high school. The study provides information that is obtained via a parent survey that
assesses the parents’ level of involvement. The latter part of this research study is
composed of findings as they relate to parent involvement and implications to improve
parent involvement at an urban high school and factors that may have affected the
validity of the study.