Race, class, and family intervention : engaging parents and families for academic success / William Alfred Sampson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sampson, William A., 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home and school--United States--Case studies.

Home and school.

Education--Parent participation--United States--Case studies.

Education.

Minorities--Education--Social aspects--United States--Case studies.

Minorities.

Minorities--Education--Social aspects.

Minorities--Education.

Education--Parent participation.

United States.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xx, 155 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2007.

Summary:

Race, Class, and Family Intervention: Engaging Parents and Families for Academic Success reports on efforts to intervene in the home life of a group of nonwhite parents and grandparents with low-performing children. Each family was asked to adopt the characteristics of middle-class families. This research-conducted on eight disadvantaged black and Latino families-details the author's analysis of the intervention and a conclusion based on actual results. Race, Class, and Family Intervention will be of interest to anyone striving to improve the education of minority students.

Contents:

Part I Race, Class, and Educational Achievement 1

1 Research Methods 3

2 Initial Observations 12

Part 2 Intervention for Academic Success 45

3 Kendra Allen 49

4 Ida Smith 60

5 Jason Green 74

6 Anita Terry 83

7 Juan Luis Martienez 95

8 Jose Rosales 104

9 Federico and Jose Luis Villar 112

10 Changing Class: What Have We Learned? 118

Appendix Sample Curriculum and Intervention Notes 131.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-150) and index.

ISBN:

9781578866281

9781578866298

1578866286

1578866294

OCLC:

82772666