A happy combination of lucid writing and careful analysis or worldwide research. For both educators and policy-makers, it will illuminate the educational roles of families and the potential of families and schools to work together. ?Harold Howe II, senior lecturer in education at Harvard University and former U.S. Commissioner of Education
THOMAS KELLAGHAN is director of the Educational Research Centre at St. Patrick's College in Dublin, Ireland. KATHRYN SLOANE is research educator in the Graduate School of Education and program evaluator at the Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California, Berkeley. BENJAMIN ALVAREZ is research and evaluation manager at the International Youth Foundation at Battle Creek, Michigan. BENJAMIN S. BLOOM is Emeritus Distinguished Service Professor of Education at the University of Chicago.