Back-to-school tips: Parental involvement key to high performance

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School spending would have to increase by $1,000 per pupil to achieve the same results that are gained with parental involvement, according to a University of New Hampshire 2008 study of more than 10,000 eighthgraders. (Karen Smith Conway, professor of economics at the University of New Hampshire, and Andrew Houtenville, Associate Professor of Economics and Research Director of the Institute on Disability.) Read:  UNH Media Relations