Product Description: Griffith and Smith explore the innumerable, hidden, seemingly mundane tasks like getting kids ready for school, helping with homework, or serving on the PTA can all have profound effects on what occurs within school. Based on longitudinal interviews with mothers of school-age children, this book exposes the effects mothers' work has on educational systems as a whole and the ways in which inequalities of educational opportunities are reproduced...read more

Product Description: When we hear the word "globalization," many of us think about the expansion of businesses and production across the world. As this book shows, globalization is also changing the shape of education. This book highlights some different forms of globalization - in particular changes that appear as school reforms, changes in public policy on education and the rise of new forms of civil society...read more

Product Description: Reflects the experiences of teachers, site administrators and especially parents, all of whom collaborated in the Accelerated Schools Project, a systematic restructuring process involving several US schools. This report reveals what is possible when schools and families become partners...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)