Take Charge!: Advocating For Your Child's Education

By Jo Ann C. Shaheen and Carolyn C. Spence

Written from the hearts of educators who want to help parents advocate for their child's education, this stirring account provides a framework of principles and values that both parents and educators... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0766842657
• ISBN13: 9780766842656
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Empowering Parents

Take Charge is an important book with big ideas for parents as well as all school personnel that have a stake in children's well-being. It is inspiring and informative with real suggestions to empower parents to team with schools to provide safe, fair, consistent, moral, stimulating and creative schools. JoAnn Shaheen and Carolyn Spence have gracefully shared their immense knowledge and understanding of children and schools to make this world a better place for all of us.

Do you know your child's school?

This very fine book details how a school curriculum relates to, supports, and ultimately teaches values. Take Charge shows how a school encourages curiosity, and protects children. It details what a parent should and can expect from a school. This book is filled with fine anecdotal stories and children's writing to illustrate its points. It is a must-read for parents and, I'd say, teachers and administrators.