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Family Involvement in Middle and High School Students' Education |
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Harvard Family Research Project: The third and final brief in our "Family Involvement Makes a Difference" series synthesizes research studies that link family involvement in middle and high school to youth's academic and social outcomes. Family involvement in academics and learning remains important in the adolescent years. Unfortunately, family involvement in education tends to decrease across middle and secondary school, due in part to adolescents' increasing desire for autonomy and in part to changes in school structure and organization. Yet family involvement in education remains a powerful predictor of various adolescent outcomes. Perhaps most importantly, family involvement relates to higher rates of college enrollment. It is generally accepted that young people today need a postsecondary degree to earn a middle-class wage. Although certain programs have succeeded in preparing youth to transition directly from high school to employment, on the whole few institutional supports exist to help adolescents succeed on this trajectory in U.S. society.
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