IMPACT

How parent engagement is directly linked to student outcomes and what we’re doing about it.

10 million children in the U.S. are being left behind in terms of education outcomes

Low-income, minority students perform 40% less than their peers.

By 2030, low-income, minority students will be 1 in 4 of the total student population.

Even more than family income, student success depends on partnership between parents, teachers and communities

Parent engagement is
2x
as effective in predicting a student’s success than family’s socio-economic status

Parent engagement is shown to drive...
Test scores
Course completion
High school graduation rates

But in low-income communities, parent engagement is lower by as much as 50% due to…

Technological barriers: School information is being communicated via internet, but 48% of families don’t have internet access

Socioeconomic barriers: 1 in 5 students are born to immigrant parents, many of them who don’t speak English and did not go to school in the US

Other common barriers: Time, education, perception and bias about families and schools

Our Solution

To make parent engagement easier for low-income, diverse families by:

1. Connecting parents with their children’s teachers and with each other

2. Developing the capacity of educators to effectively partner with parents

3. Educating parents on how best to support their children’s learning at home

Our Impact

We partnered with WestEd to measure our impact on building strong parent-teacher partnerships and increasing parent engagement, especially for immigrant, low-income families of color.

TalkingPoints is changing behaviors at home, at school and in classrooms…

100%
Low-income, non-English speaking parents who are more engaged

87%
Parents who had more conversations about school at home with their children

4X
Increase in homework assignment return rates - more significant for failing students

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