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Getting the Best Education for Your Child

Name: Getting the Best Education for Your Child
Author: James Keogh
ISBN: 9781565654518

by James Keogh

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Overview

YOU ARE YOUR CHILD'S BEST ADVOCATE

You pay your taxes. You're active in the PTA. You may even have moved to your community because its school system had a great reputation. But is your child really getting the education he or she needs as an individual?

Getting the Best Education for Your Child is an essential guide to working with your child's school from kindergarten through sixth grade. School board member and newspaper columnist James Keogh provides the insights and strategies all parents need to ensure success for their children.

How much time is the teacher actually devoting to your child?
How safe is the school environment?
What grading standards are used?
What provisions are made for children with special needs?
What about such alternatives as private school and home schooling?
And most important, what is your child supposed to know by the end of the school year?

Don't be intimidated by a bureaucratic, defensive school system. You can make a difference in what your child gets out of school.

James Keogh, school reporter for the New Jersey Record, offers a guidebook for parents whose children are entering the elementary school years in Getting the Best Education for Your Child: A Parent's Checklist. Anecdotes and checklists punctuate a text that addresses important issues from the simple ('Are Your School Facilities Well-Maintained?') to the complex ('Can You Find the Unwritten Rules?'). This title from Lowell House includes chapters with curriculum and extracurricular guidelines for each grade level.

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Library Journal

This excellent work by Keogh, a member and president of a typical Board of Education and columnist for the New Jersey Record, provides practical advice for parents of children enrolled in elementary school. The first five chapters discuss problems in a representative school district and present effective techniques for dealing with teachers and school officials. Remaining chapters profile each grade from kindergarten through sixth grade, with course proficiencies giving general guidelines for what a child should know at the end of the school year. Parents will find the advice here to be very helpful in dealing with the public school bureaucracy. Highly recommended for public libraries.-Barbara S. Meagher, Central Connecticut State Univ., New Britain