Over the past 150 years, schools in America have been governed by various legislations geared toward increasing learning. One recurring theme across the various acts is that of parental involvement. This led to the broad question, "How does parental involvement impact student progress for primary students in Tier 2 and Tier 3 reading…

The following qualitative case study explored principal and teacher perceptions to offer instructional leaders an understanding of contextual factors that are believed to enhance the trajectories of at-risk students concurrent with and following their discontinuance of Reading Recovery. The insights from this research provide instructional leaders…