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Research and Evaluation Focus
This is an exciting time for the PIRCs and for parental involvement. More than ever before,
parents are recognized as important partners in their children's education. PIRCs play a
critical role in acting as state-wide resources and as a national think tank for parental
involvement. As such, the PIRCs are incubators of innovation, who use research and
experience to promote effective parental involvement practices across the country
and to build knowledge in the field. In this spirit of innovation, the PIRCs have a
strong commitment to using data and evaluation. In 2006, the PIRCs began working with
the National PIRC Coordination Center to use a new and evolving approach to evaluation
that is designed both to ensure the quality of PIRC services and to generate lessons
about effective practices. All of the PIRCs are working toward collecting high-quality
data on a number of legislated outcomes. In an exciting development, several PIRCs are
conducting research studies that use robust methods to examine the effectiveness of
specific parental involvement approaches. These studies will not only inform PIRC services,
but they make an important contribution to the field and to parents and educators across the country.
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