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After the Bell: Family Background, Public Policy, and Educational Success by Dalton Conley; Karen Albright
Routledge 2004; US$ 180.00This book looks at the social and economic factors of schooling and will prove an intriguing read for sociologists, social economists and policy-makers alike. more...
Children, Home and Schoolby Ros Edwards
RoutledgeFalmer 2001; US$ 47.50This book explores the key institutional settings of home and school, and other educationally linked organised spaces, in children's lives, and the relationships between these. more...
The Causes of Exclusionby Cedric Cullingford
Taylor & Francis 1999; US$ 57.50Parental attitudes to school; experiences from school; teaching and exclusion; peer groups, personality and self-awareness; the excluded as parents themselves. more...
Funds of Knowledgeby Luis C. Moll; Cathy Amanti; Norma Gonzalez
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2005; US$ 47.95This book accomplishes three objectives: It gives readers the basic methodology and techniques followed in the contributors' funds of knowledge research; it extends the boundaries of what these researchers have done; and it explores the applications to classroom practice that can result from teachers knowing the communities in which they work. more...
Parent Talk!by Cheli Cerra; Ruth Jacoby
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2005; US$ 14.95A must-have book for all parents! Parent Talk! provides practical advice to help parents communicate with their child and their child's school, featuring an easy, fast-moving format with sample role-playing situations, parent-to-parent tips, sample letters, and checklists to help you stay on track. Authors Cheli Cerra and Ruth Jacoby identify 52 common school situations and offer expert guidance based on their experiences as parents and school principals. Do you want to: * Be comfortable when speaking with your child's teacher? * Know exactly what to do if your child is failing? * Know exactly what to say at parent conferences? * Learn how to deal with a variety of school issues? If you answered yes, then Parent Talk! is the book you need.... more...
Education and the Familyby Leon Feinstein; Kathryn Duckworth; Ricardo Sabates
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 47.95An analysis of the role of policy in challenging self-perpetuating social advantage in education. This book takes the view that policy mechanisms are an essential part of overturning the persistence of social class differences and barriers to equality of opportunity. more...
Improving Parental Involvementby Garry Hornby
Continuum International Publishing 2000; US$ 130.00It is acknowledged that effective schools involve parents effectively. This study describes how schools can achieve this aim, and how to increase standards of achievement. It covers the field from nursery to secondary schools, and is aimed at teachers, governors, welfare workers, advisers and PTAs. more...
Involving Parentsby Julian Stern
Continuum International Publishing 2003; US$ 50.00Dealing with parents is often harder than dealing with the pupils themselves. This can cause a lot of anxiety and distress amongst teachers. Stern offers practical advice on how to involve parents with school life. He demonstrates how this involvement leads to improved relations thereby alleviating not only the stress of dealing with parents but also reducing the teacher's workload. more...
The HomeSchool Connectionby Flora V. Rodríguez-Brown
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 49.95The Project FLAME program used as the context for this book is a comprehensive family literacy model supported by a strong sociocultural framework based on current research on cultural ways of learning and theories of multiliteracies and discourse. The volume is an essential resource for educators, community workers, and researchers interested in the relevance of the home-school connection in relation to childrens school success. more...
International Perspectives on Contexts, Communities and Evaluated Innovative Practicesby Rollande Deslandes
Taylor & Francis 2009; US$ 140.00Detailing practices that have proved effective alongside relevant case examples, this book analyses contributions from diverse countries facing common challenges, showing the way ahead for Family-School-Community Relations. more...









