Research shows that getting parents involved pays off. When parents play a part in their child's academic career, students have better school attendance, make greater achievement gains, and have fewer behavior problems.

This 90-minute program features experts Karen L. Mapp, Susan Hall, and Tom Bowmann discussing what your school can do to make parents partners in the process of teaching children to read.

Dr. Karen L. Mapp is president of the Institute for Responsive Education.

Susan Hall is the project director of the Early Intervention Program, Porter County Reading Foundation, and       co-author of Straight Talk About Reading: How Parents Can Make a Difference During the Early Years.

Tom Bowmann is director of Elementary Curriculum and Instruction, Baltimore City Public School System.

This program originally aired as a live Reading Rockets teleconference.