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Check out the research:
 

The Family: America’s Smallest School, Education Testing Service, 2007.
 
The Why, What and How of Effective School, Family and Community Partnerships, Dr. Karen L. Mapp, educational education expert, presenting evidence of correlation between family engagement and students’ academic achievement.

Beyond the Bake Sale by Henderson et al., New London Press, 2007.

The Missing Piece of the Proficiency Puzzle, Commissioner’s Parents Advisory Panel, Final Report to the Kentucky Department of Education, June 2007.
 
Research Brief: Linking Student Achievement to School, Family, and Community Involvement, Edvantia, 2005.
 
Beyond Input: Achieving Authentic Participation in School Reform, Harvard Family Research Project, Volume 9,2, 2003.

One Dream, Two Realities: Perspectives of Parents on America's High Schools, Civic Enterprises, 2008.

Find out more information about DPLI graduates' projects and read other important parent news in our Fall 2009 Newsletter. Projects are also highlighted in our DPLI yearbooks:

Yearbooks 
 

2005 Yearbook
2006 Yearbook
2007 Yearbook
2008 Yearbook

DPLI Training Video 
 

Take an inside look into our Parent Leadership Training.  Click here to watch the video.