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Parents and Schools: The 150 Year Struggle for Control in American Educationreviewed by Lee Shumow - 2002 Title: Parents and Schools: The 150 Year Struggle for Control in American Education Author(s): William W. Cutler III Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago ISBN: 0226132161, Pages: 296, Year: 2000 Search for book at Amazon.com Scholars, educators, and parents agree that good relationships
between parents and schools benefit students. Consensus has not
been reached about how those good relationships should be achieved,
who holds responsibility for what, and where control should reside
in making educational decisions. The book Parents and Schools:
The 150 Year Struggle for Control in American Education points
out that issues and problems relating to home school relationships,
and the struggle for resolving them, are not new. Heretofore,
little attention has been paid to the history of the home school
relationship in American education. This book provides a historical
perspective that will inform scholars, advanced students, and
practitioners.
Using minutes from meetings, committee reports, policy
statements, association records, published articles, research
reports, and histories published by scholars, Cutler traces the
relationship between parents and schools from 1840 until the 1990s.
The book does much to explain how the current relationship between
parents and schools developed and provides reason to question
simplistic solutions to our nation’s educational
problems.
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- Lee Shumow
Northern Illinois University E-mail Author Lee Shumow, Educational Psychology and Foundations Department, Northern Illinois University. Lee Shumow studies parental influences on student adjustment and the contributions of community, family, and school characteristics to parenting beliefs and behaviors. Her article (with colleague, Jon Miller) “Parents’ At-home and at-school involvement with young adolescents” was published recently in The Journal of Early Adolescence. She has just completed and presented research studies on predictors and effects of parental efficacy for adolescents’ academic and social-emotional adjustment (with colleague, Richard Lomax) and on how homework tasks are related to the quality and kind of homework assistance parents provide their elementary school children. She is currently designing a course for teachers to help them develop knowledge and skills for working with parents.
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