Handbook of School-Family Partnerships

<p>Family-school partnerships are increasingly touted as a means of improving both student and school improvement. This recognition has led to an increase in policies and initiatives that offer the following benefits: improved communication between parents and educators; home and school goals that are mutually supportive and shared; better understanding of the complexities impinging on children’s development; and pooling of family and school resources to find and implement solutions to shared goals. This is the first comprehensive review of what is known about the effects of home-school partnerships on student and school achievement. It provides a brief history of home-school partnerships presents evidence-based practices for working with families across developmental stages and provides an agenda for future research and policy. </p><p><strong>Key features include:</strong></p><ul> <p> </p> <li>provides comprehensive cross-disciplinary coverage of theoretical issues and research concerning family-school partnerships.</li> <p> </p> <li>describes those aspects of school-family partnerships that have been adequately researched and promotes their implementation as evidence-based interventions. </li> <p> </p> <li>charts cutting-edge research agendas & methods for exploring school-family partnerships.</li> <p> </p> <li>charts the implications such research has for training policy and practice especially regarding educational disparities.</li> </ul><p>This book is appropriate for researchers instructors and graduate students in the following areas: school counseling school psychology educational psychology school leadership special education and school social work. It is also appropriate for the academic libraries serving these audiences. </p>