School discipline and behavioral research and evaluation, including my own , consistently battles the critique that we arent considering (or measuring) the presence/dynamics/frequency/quality of parental interactions with teachers and parental participation at school. Part of this is clearly about measuring the influence of how families/homelife/parents shape behavior while at school (and sometimes this is treated as a scapegoat for teachers' limited ability to thwart discipline issues at school). However, a second piece of this is the often understudied nature of parental-teacher communication in improving student behavioral and other outcomes. This second line of inquiry spurs myriad questions about how and about the exact mechanism through which increased parental involvement/communication would ameliorate student discipline issues. In some evaluations, we have tried to answer these questions by proxying parental involvement/interest with a set of student, parent, and staff surv
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