The Parent Engagement research abstracts is a compilation of international and National research 

From Moral Supporters to Struggling Advocates. Reconceptualizing Parent Roles in
Education Through the Experience of Working-Class Families of Color (Auerbach, 2007,
USA).

Parents’ Involvement in Their Children’s Education (Berthelsen & Walker, 2008, AUS).

Successful Home-School Partnerships (Bull, Brooking & Campbell, 2008, NZ).

Why Fathers Matter to their Children’s Literacy (Clark, 2009, UK).

The Impact of Parental Involvement, Parental Support and Family Education on Pupil Achievements and Adjustment: A Literature Review (Desforges with Abouchaar, 2003, UK).

Literature Review: Parent Involvement (Edstar Inc., 2007, USA).

Engaging Parents in Raising Achievement. Do parents Know They Matter? (Harris & Goodall, 2007, UK)

Teachers Make a Difference: What is the research evidence? (Hattie, 2003, NZ)

A new Generation of Evidence: the Family is Critical to Student Achievement (Henderson & Berla, eds, 1994, USA).

A New Wave of Evidence. The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement. Annual Synthesis 2002 (Henderson & Mapp, 2002, USA).

Parental Involvement in Middle School: A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Strategies that Promote Achievement (Hill & Tyson, 2009, USA).

Why Do Parents Become Involved? Research Findings and Implications (Hoover-Dempsey, Walker, Sandler, Whetsel, Green, Wilkins & Closson, 2005, USA)

Narrowing the Gap in Outcomes for Vulnerable Groups: A review of the research evidence (Kendall, Straw, Jones, Springate, & Grayson, 2008, UK).

Parental engagement: social and economic effects (Muller, for the Australian Parents Council, 2009, Aust)

Parent Engagement and Leadership (Pushor & Ruitenberg, 2005, Canada).

Types of parents and school strategies aimed at the creation of effective partnerships (Smit, Driessen, Sluiter & Sleegers, 2007, The Netherlands).

Parent Involvement in Urban Charter Schools: A new paradigm or the status quo? (Smith & Wohlstetter, 2009, USA).

Beyond Random Acts: family, school and community engagement as an integral part of education reform. (Weiss, Lopez & Rosenberg, 2010, USA).

Breaking New Ground: data systems transform family engagement in education.(Weiss, Lopez & Stark, 2011, USA).

Seeing is Believing: Promising Practices for How School Districts Promote Family Engagement (Westmoreland, Rosenberg, Lopez, & Weiss, 2009, USA).

Parental Involvement in Education (Williams, Williams & Ullman, 2003, UK)