Word: steinberger
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Nothing has come from the millions of dollars poured into school reform over the past two decades, said Laurence Steinberg at the Graduate School of Education Forum last night...
...Steinberg, the author of Beyond the Classroom: Why School Reform Has Failed and What Parents Need to Do, said that the problems in American school systems stem from a lack of parental and community involvement, two elements which money cannot replace...
...Steinberg's book contains the findings of a study he did which correlates lack of student achievement with a sharp decline in parental involvement between the end of middle school and the beginning of their child's high school years...
...This decline in parental involvement in children's schooling could not come at a worse time," Steinberg said. "It occurs just when other interests and activities compete for students' attention...
...Steinberg's study showed that other social factors also contribute to low student achievement...