Sending parents useful information about attendance, course progress has big effects, social scientists find

"When Todd Rogers, director of the Student Social Support R&D Lab at Harvard University, started doing research in schools, he found focusing on parents could offer big returns.

“Parents get so little information and so little of what they get is useful,” Rogers said.

Read the experiments conducted by Rogers at the Harvard Kennedy School at Sending parents useful information . . .

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