Harvard Family Research Project's Series on Family Involvement in education from early childhood through high school

Family Involvement in Middle and High School
Harvard Family Research Project's (HFRP), Family Involvement in Middle and High School Students' Education, synthesizes research studies that link family involvement in middle and high school to youth's academic and social outcomes.

Family Involvement in Elementary School
Family Involvement in Elementary School Children's Education reviews research on why and how family involvement matters for elementary school children's learning and socio-emotional development.

Family Involvement in Early Childhood Education
You can also read the first brief in the series, which looks at family involvement research and its implications for early childhood education.

Family-Strengthening Programs That Work
This brief, entitled Lessons From Family-Strengthening Interventions: Learning From Evidence-Based Practice, complements the Family Involvement Makes a Difference series with valuable information about creating successful programs and evaluations. In it, we review family-strengthening interventions that have been rigorously evaluated through experimental studies and find some common elements among successful programs.