It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers..

Schooling is what happens inside the wall of the school, some of which is educational. Education happens everywhere, and it happens from the moment a….

We must develop a compelling vision of later life: one that does not assume a trajectory of decline after fifty, but one that recognizes it as a time….

Dissonance between family and school, therefore, is not only inevitable in a changing society; it also helps to make children moremalleable and respo….

There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply rooted in th….

Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and c….

Whether outside work is done by choice or not, whether women seek their identity through work, whether women are searching for pleasure or survival t….

It was much later that I realized Dad's secret. He gained respect by giving it. He talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who ….

For those parents from lower-class and minority communities[who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have h….

Mothers seem to be in subtle competition with teachers. There is always an underlying fear that teachers will do a better job thanthey have done with….

Views of women, on one side, as inwardly directed toward home and family and notions of men, on the other, as outwardly striving toward fame and fort….

Productive collaborations between family and school, therefore, will demand that parents and teachers recognize the critical importance of each other….

The ambiguous, gray areas of authority and responsibility between parents and teachers exacerbate the distrust between them. The distrust is further ….

Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable..