Kit includes: Parent Education Sessions: Step-by-step instructions for 3 parent education workshops: How Parents Make a Difference, How Students Learn Best, and Testing: Knowing What Your Child Knows. Take-Home Handouts: Numerous clear, jargon-free handouts with key information for parents and caregivers, including: What Parents Can Do to Make a Difference, Twenty Ways to Support Your Children and Their School, Four Common Ways Parents Discourage Their Children, and many more. Engaging Messages: Short digests of research findings that can motivate parents to get involved. These can be especially useful in school newsletters.

Parent involvement in a child's education is the single most important factor for academic success, more important than the child's cultural or economic environment or the educational background of the parent. Parent Partners provides parents and other caregivers with concrete, practical things they can do to help their children succeed in school. This kit is designed for educators and activist parents seeking to increase parental involvement in their children's education. The variety of tools in this kit educate parents about current approaches in science and mathematics education and about the enormous positive educational impact parents can have.