What is the best way for parents to be more involved in their children academic welfare and performance??

When they interviewed a small sample of child welfare caseworkers about their involvement in the education of the children in foster care, Finkelstein and colleagues (2002) found they were more informed than foster parents or school personnel about children’s developmental delays. These caseworkers also advocated for special treatment and programs.

Yet they also found that these workers lacked generalized knowledge about the academic performance of foster children, and what they knew about the performance of specific children “seemed limited to situations where information was easily obtained, where the child also exhibited behavioral problems, or where a child’s performance was so poor it was reaching crisis levels.” Caseworkers generally did not see low grades alone as a pressing issue.