Family matters
Subtitle: how schools can cope with the crisis in childrearing
By: Robert Evans.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Jossey-Bass education series
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2004
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Child rearing -- United States; Home and school -- United States; Children -- United States -- Social conditions
Description: Explores how recent changes in children's and parents' roles in the family have impacted the education system and offers teachers advice and strategies for dealing with the effects of those changes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Something's gone way wrong"; title: The building blocks of healthy growth; title: Back to basics : a parenting primer; title: Fast forward : the fragile family; title: Losing connection; title: Abandoning authority; title: Building résumés; title: The new insecurity; title: The new individualism; title: Rethinking school accountability; title: What makes us, us : clarifying purpose and conduct; title: Redefining the home-school partnership; title: Resistance and leadership : building faculty will; title: Parenting parents : building faculty skill; title: Paradox, realism, and hope.