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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A NPR story on the radio featuring this article:

http://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2014/12/16/54797/pasadena-schools-experiment-with-charlas-to-help-students-by-coaching-their-parents/

"“We found that most forms of parental involvement yield no benefit to children’s test scores or grades regardless of their racial or ethnic background or socioeconomic status.”
Robinson found traditional activities like attending PTA meetings didn’t help.
But he said a few things can make a difference.
“The list of what consistently works is pretty short. That would be expecting your child to go to college, regularly discussing activities that your child engages in at school and requesting a particular teacher for your child,” he said."[/quote]

This is not surprising. Our school has a PTA funded program that doesn't appear to be audited or measured for performance in any way. Everyone loves to talk about our unique "XXXX" program but nobody can answer basics questions about how the program is measured for effectiveness and impact or why the PTA continues to fund it year after year. So we will keep paying $00 because everybody thinks the program is so great and some of us are wondering why we don't consider other programs.[/quote]

I think you and other posters are confused about the study cited in the NPR study.

There are two different propositions here:

1) the attendance of low-income parents at PTA meetings does not improve the test scores of the children of those parents. Other involvements are more effective for engaging these parents, for example the "charlas" discussed in the article.

2) PTA-funded programming is ineffective at raising the test scores of children or meaningfully contribuing to their education.

The study established (1). It didn't say anything about (2), and we know that (2) is false because for example, PTAs can fund these types of charlas and also tutoring, enrichment, classroom aides, and many things that help students.

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