School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators and Improving Schools

Dated and obsolete 2nd edition. Watch out for 4th edition continuing ignorance on legal provisions on ESSA and effectively fostering lack of engagement with same in the content of Title I public schools. Bottom line: it wants to look authoritative on this subject but it is not. It simply documents its own research on the subject. Nothing else. Like: Comprehensive, research-based resources for schools to partner with student's family and community. Didn't: No explanation on how Title I Part A (family and community participation) works. It does comment about it, but only as an outsider. Comments are from before 2015; keep mentioning section 1118, when Every Student Succeeds Act renumbered that section to 1116 back in early 2015. No mention on how to leverage Title I Part A to avoid duplication of efforts.

This book is very useful and focuses on the most-important and most-transformative framework that we can establish and sustain for our schools: partnerships. As a lead author for this field, having this insight from Epstein is critical to making positive change.

Epstein knows her stuff and is backed by a well-respected institution in her research. I used it for several training sessions with both education administrators and classroom teacher groups.

Required reading for Graduate school. Good information.

Great for my research !!!!

a useful book that make me clear the status quo of school-family-community cooperation.

I got an "A" in my class...

This book is very outdated. The publication date is 2011 which caused me to think it was relatively current. However, the majority of data presented in the research in this book is from 1980. How can current students preparing to teach be informed by a book that does not even include email as a form of parent communication (let alone other electronic methods like texts or school accounts). The conclusions of the research are good but I'm not sure who the audience for this book should be. It is too outdated for teachers as they prepare or currently teach.