Families, Schools, and Communities: Building Partnerships for Educating Children (5th Edition) / Barbour, Chandler H.

This fifth edition of Families, Schools, and Communities:  Building Partnerships for Educating Children provides teachers and teacher candidates with a comprehensive guide to establishing collaboration with parents and the larger community.  This text will help future teachers develop the understanding and tools they need to work with others to give children a better education.  The underlying message of this book is that all persons involved in early childhood education or child advocacy should join hands in promoting the highest quality of education for young children in America.

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The authors have added features and rearranged the topics to give this text better coherence and greater usability.  Readers will find we have updated references and resources throughout but have streamlined the research citations to provide for smoother reading.  We removed the chapter on school curriculum but included suitable parts of that in other chapters.  We have renamed some chapters to reflect changes in content, and we have grouped References by each chapter.