This report, one of a series on the work of the 30 pilot projects that formed the European Community's second program on the transition from education to adult and community life, is an interim progress statement on how the projects have developed new approaches to engaging parents' support of education. It highlights key points from the pilot projects as to what parents and parents' associations should do and what schools and local authorities should do to make the partnership between them more effective. Section I discusses roles for parents and parents' associations as partners with schools. Section II describes the role of schools in making parents more active partners. Section III describes how parents can be invited, encouraged, or helped to contribute to the life and work of secondary schools in the double role as parents of children in the school and as members of the local community. The last section summarizes the points on which action can be initiated by parents or parents' associations and by schools. It also draws the implications for supporting action by local authorities responsible for education. An appendix provides an annotated list of 39 titles from "Innovations," a series of four-page profiles of new developments on curriculum, guidance, aspects of cooperation, provision for the disadvantaged, teacher training, and the improvement of opportunities for girls. A list of contacts for all pilot projects referred to in the text is also appended. (YLB)