The purpose of the current action based quantitative research study was to investigate a relationship between student's achievement on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) in reading and mathematics and parent participation as school sponsored family reading and math curriculum night workshops. While attending these…

Public schools struggle with ways to encourage parental involvement in the classroom. Home and school collaboration is needed if students are to succeed academically. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there was a significant difference in the reading achievement of students by the number of workshop sessions attended by parents…