School/Community Relations & School/Home Relations

Are you sick of nagging your child to write down homework assignments? Is his or her backpack a black hole that eats up papers, books, and gym clot...

Universities are increasingly being asked to take an active role as research collaborators with citizens, public bodies, and community organisation...

Using forty years of evidence-based research as its core, Family Engagement with Education: Strategies for School Social Workers and Educators is t...

Making the transition into kindergarten is a significant and exciting milestone in young children's lives. With proper coordination and planning, i...

A trenchant and wide-ranging look at this alarming national trend, Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline is unsparing in its account of the prob...

Stand Out Get into a Dream School, written by a Stanford admissions insider, reveals the secrets that lead students to be admitted into the college...

Read Out Loud to Your Child!This book is a must for anyone who is ever around children! Imagine how different the world would be if all parents, te...

At a time when people feel pulled in many directions and bombarded by a constant flow of information, Prime-Time Parenting provides a realistic fra...

Take the mystery out of middle-grade science!The Common Core, a new set of national educational standards, has been adopted by 45 states across the...

This book examines how commonly applied approaches to parent involvement in schools do not easily transfer to bilingual and bicultural families. Th...

Exploring the phenomenon of school closures, this study highlights how traditional schoolhouses and neighborhood schools are disappearing at an ala...

In The Quest for Mastery, Sam M. Intrator and Don Siegel investigate an emerging trend: the growth of out-of-school programmes dedicated to helping...