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Making Our High Schools Better: How Parents and Teachers Can Work Together
Making Our High Schools Better How Parents and Teachers Can Work Together Author:Anne W. Dodd, Jean L. Konzal 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 sc... more »hools. Reformers argue that, to bridge this chasm, parents must become more involved with the education process, yet most parents of high school students remain outside the schoolhouse doors. Teachers, who view themselves as experts on teaching and learning, often see parents as problems or critics and are happy to keep them at a distance. Neither group has a good understanding of the other's perspectives. This groundbreaking 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.« less