Handbook of school-family partnerships
Family and community involvement are increasingly touted as a means of improving both student and school-level achievement. This has led to an increase in policies, initiatives and goals designed to address family involvement in schools. Once recognized and implemented, such family-school partnershi...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2010.
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| Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess |
| Summary: | Family and community involvement are increasingly touted as a means of improving both student and school-level achievement. This has led to an increase in policies, initiatives and goals designed to address family involvement in schools. Once recognized and implemented, such family-school partnerships can lead to the following benefits: enhanced communication and coordination between parents and educators; continuity in developmental goals and approaches across family and school contexts; shared ownership and commitment to educational goals; increased understanding of the complexities of child. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 525 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780203876046 (electronic bk.) 0203876040 (electronic bk.) |