The role of parents in managing children’s educational experiences at home and at school has
long been considered critical for children’s success in school. However, it is only recently that
researchers have begun systematic and extensive investigations of parental involvement beyond the
early years of schooling. Recent research has investigated parents’ involvement in students’ education
during the middle grades. This study expands that research by examining parents’ involvement in high
school and by tracing continuity and change in parental involvement between the middle grades and
the last year of secondary education.