The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other

Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara

ISBN 10: 037550527X / ISBN 13: 9780375505270

Published by Random House, New York, 2003

About this Item

Fourth printing. Inscribed and signed by the author on the half-title page: "To Amber / A Gift from God. May you be a wonderful parent. / Love, / Mom / Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot." Laid in is a bookmark with the inscription printed out, which the former owner no doubt gave to the author to replicate. Lawrence-Lightfoot is a MacArthur prize-winning Harvard sociologist who will become, upon retirement, the first African American woman with an endowed professorship at Harvard. The book is square and unmarked; one corner and tail of spine lightly bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $24.95); light edgewear at spine ends and corners; Brodart protected.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other
• Publisher: Random House, New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 037550527X
• ISBN 13: 9780375505270
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Offers practical guidelines on how to establish an effective dialogue between parents and teachers, examining the dynamics of such conversations, the nature of the learning process, and the diverse principles and practices of improving family-school relationships. 25,000 first printing.

About the Author

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a sociologist, is a professor of education at Harvard University, where, since 1972, she has studied the culture of schools, families, and communities. She is the author of eight books, including The Good High School, Respect, I ve Known Rivers, and Balm in Gilead, which won the 1988 Christopher Award for literary merit and humanitarian achievement. In 1984, she was the recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Prize Fellowship. In 1993, she was awarded Harvard s George Ledlie Prize for research that makes the most valuable contribution to science and is to the benefit of mankind. She is the first African-American woman in Harvard s history to have an endowed professorship named in her honor.