Making the Best of Schools: A Handbook for Parents, Teachers, and Policymakers

by Jeannie Oakes

Book Overview

This practical, informative book shows parents and professionals alike how they can work with schools to help children receive the best possible education. Throughout, Oakes and Lipton provide invaluable guidance on such topics as how children learn; how changes at home can increase a child's success at school; how basic subjects might be taught in more meaningful ways; how children with physical, emotional, social, or learning problems can be mainstreamed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300051239
• ISBN13: 9780300051230
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"