Williams The Parent-Centered Early School

Highland Community School of Milwaukee
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-62146-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 222 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Education and Culture

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Michael R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
*Introduction
*Research on Characteristics of Effective Schools/Chapter Overviews/Procedures Used in This Case Study
*Highland the School
*Highland's Origins/Demographics of Highland's Neighborhood, Two Decades On The Current Highland Program/Key Staff and Faculty Throughout Highland's History/Highland's Effectiveness: Academics, Students, Parents
*Cultural Diversity at Highland
* Highland's Admissions Policies/Five Concerns in Educating for Cultural Diversity/Goals for Multicultural Education/Stages in Developing a Multicultural Curriculum/Highland's Multicultural Curriculum Compared to the Six Stages
*The Meaning of Community at Highland
*The Elements of Highland's Vision of Community/"At Highland We All Help Each Other"/Highland Values Children/Highland's Spirit of Egalitarianism/Highland's Value of Nonviolence/The Collegiality of Highland's Staff
*Recent Research on Parent Involvement
*Socioeconomic Factors in Parent Involvement/The Effects of Parent Involvement on Student Achievement/The Effects of School Intervention Programs that Promote Parent Involvement/James Comer's Parent Involvement Model
*How Highland Involves Its Parents
*Three Types of Parental Attitudes about School Involvement/Educating Parents Formally/All Highland Parents Work in the School/Survey of Highland Parents, 1994
*Parents Govern Highland
*Recent Experiments to Reform Decision Making in U.S. Schools/Parent Control at Highland/Survey of Highland's 1994-95 Parent Board Members
*The Trustees of Highland
*A History of Highland's Trustee Group/The Trustee Role/A Survey of Trustee Involvement and Attitudes/Trustees for an Urban Public School?
*Highland's "Early School" Curriculum
*Understanding the Montessori Model/The Highland Children's House (Three to Six Years)/The Montessori Model at the Junior Level in Highland Community School/How Highland Extends the Montessori Model/Highland Compared to Other Current National Reform Experiments Highland's Lessons for Public EducationMission and Values/Organizational Practices/What Can Highland School Tell the Public School?
*Conclusion
*References
*Index