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“effective stage setting is more rooted in lifestyle than in parental involvement activities. Once the stage is set for academic success, children are on course toward being academically successful.”
― Keith Robinson, The Broken Compass: Parental Involvement with Children's Education

“Many students described their parents’ support in nonacademic activities as being equal to their support in school. Importantly, they felt this support was instrumental in helping them do well academically because it was viewed as a general interest in their life overall”
― Keith Robinson, The Broken Compass: Parental Involvement with Children's Education

“it is a mistake to conclude that the level of parental involvement of minority groups is the reason for the racial achievement gap or that greater parental involvement from minority groups will lead to gap convergence. Our findings suggest that socioeconomic resources explain a greater share of the racial achievement disparities than parental involvement.”
― Keith Robinson, The Broken Compass: Parental Involvement with Children's Education

“They mentioned things such as, “They were supportive in life”; “They attended my band concerts”; “They left schooling up to me”; or “They did not talk much at all about school.” At one point students were asked, “Did any of your parents read books to you when you were a child, join PTA meetings, regularly converse with your teachers, or discuss college plans with you?”
― Keith Robinson, The Broken Compass: Parental Involvement with Children's Education

“Whereas traditional forms of involvement would require parents to engage in any number of activities similar to those examined in this study, stage setting only requires that parents focus on two factors: messages and life space.”
― Keith Robinson, The Broken Compass: Parental Involvement with Children's Education

“affluent parents are more involved than their less advantaged counterparts. Educators will find the anecdotally observed relationship between parental involvement and high achievement too appealing to ignore and will promote parental involvement as the answer to most of the problems within K–12. But as we show, an extensive quantitative assessment only lends moderate support for these anecdotal observations. What we propose is that affluent parents have created a space that sets these children up for success.”
― Keith Robinson, The Broken Compass: Parental Involvement with Children's Education

“parents are responsible for creating a context that allows their children to assume the identity of an academically successful student. Thus, we define stage setting as the process of (1) conveying the importance of education to children in a manner that leads schooling to become central to how they define themselves, and (2) creating and maintaining an environment (or life space) for them in which learning can be maximized or not compromised.”
― Keith Robinson, The Broken Compass: Parental Involvement with Children's Education