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When a teacher asks parents to be partners, he or she doesn’t necessarily mean Mom or (D)ad should be camping in the classroom. Research shows that though students benefit modestly from having parents involved at school, what happens at home matters much more. (A)ccording to research based ont eh National (E)ducation Longitudinal Study, a sample of nearly 25,000 eighth graders, among four main areas of parental involvement (home discussion, home supervision, school communication, and school participation), home discussion was the most strongly related to academic achievement.