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Making our high schools better : how parents and teachers can work together

Title: Making our high schools better : how parents and teachers can work together / Anne Wescott Dodd, Jean L. Konzal.
Author: Dodd, Anne W.
Publication: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

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Additional Authors

Konzal, Jean L., 1944-

Description

xxviii, 276 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"The Deep Chasm Between what parents want education to provide for their children and what teachers must provide for entire classrooms is one of the most vexing problems facing our nation today. Making Our High Schools Better examines how the different perspectives of parents and teachers can be understood and negotiated to improve high schools. This book examines these diverging - and sometimes contradictory - perspectives, explains why parents and teachers should work together to help all children learn, and offers suggestions of ways to open the doors to productive dialogue and collaboration. Anne Wescott Dodd and Jean L. Konzal use in-depth interviews with teachers and parents to give faces and voices to both sides of the conflict. Making Our High Schools Better is an illuminating book that does more than acknowledge problems, it seeks and discovers the steps leading to solutions."--Jacket.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-270) and index.

Contents

Understanding the Often Problematic Relationships Between Parents and Schools -- Why Focus on Improving Relationships between Parents and Educators? -- What Can Be Learned from Looking at the Past? -- How Do Competing Roles Complicate Relationships? -- What Influences Parents' Opinions about High School? -- Understanding Tensions Created by Different Opinions About Teaching and Testing -- What Is Learning? What Is Teaching? -- What and How Should Students Learn? -- How Should Student Learning Be Assessed? -- Building Bridges to Parents and the Community -- Parents as Learners: Four Profiles -- Opening Doors to Parents and Community Members: Snapshots and Suggestions -- From Parent Involvement to Community Building: A Call to Action.

ISBN

0312213352
9780312213350

LCCN

98046121

OCLC

ocm39936224
39936224
SCSB-694563

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library