Publisher's Synopsis
In this volume, educators, community activists and public officials examine the factors that encourage or compromise the critical relationship between families, schools and their communities. Offering both diagnosis and prescription for America's failing education system, the authors consider the fragmentation of the family, the role of the family in children's development, minority and Spanish-speaking families' perspectives on schooling, and the implementation of family/school/community partnership programmes. This should be of interest to education specialists, public officials and policymakers, educators, and community advocates.
