Home-School Relations: Working Successfully With Parents and Families

This is the hottest topic in schools today! In order for educators to have positive working relationships with their students, they must understand the families from which their students come. This edited volume examines the nature of the contemporary family and its relationship to the school. Packed with practical advice for developing strong home-school relationships, this book delves into the issues facing families today: poverty, advocacy, parenting, and domestic violence. Unlike other books in this field, Home School Relations confronts the alarming statistics on these issues and how they affect children, and ultimately their performance in school. All in all, this book provides solid, practical examples of building good home-school partnerships and fostering familial involvement in schools. Teachers and educational leaders, day care facilitators.