Family Matters : How Schools Can Cope with the Crisis in Childrearing

By Robert Evans.

Family Matters : How Schools Can Cope with the Crisis in Childrearing

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Students everywhere are harder to reach and teach, their attention and motivation less reliable, their language and behavior more provocative.  This is largely because parents, suffering a widespread loss of confidence and competence, are increasingly anxious about their children?s success, yet increasingly unable to support and guide them?and increasingly assertive and adversarial vis a vis the school.  Examining these trends and their underlying causes, Evans calls for a combination of limits and leverage.  At the policy level, we must rethink our notions of accountability,...

ISBN(s)

0787966568, 9780787966560

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