Getting the Best Education for Your Child [Paperback]

James Keogh (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 19, 1997

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.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

James Keogh, a long-time school-board member in New Jersey, uses his insider's knowledge to teach readers how to get their children the education they need, deserve, and already pay for through taxes. Beginning with techniques to assess what is really going on in the school--and whether the school is meeting the standards--Keogh leads readers through the process of creating change. Though he discusses the advantages and disadvantages of private and home schooling, Keogh's main focus is the public school. Use his guidelines to avoid intimidation, know your rights, and work with your school district to get the best education for your child.

From 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
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books; 1st Ballantine Books Ed edition (August 19, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0449911152
• ISBN-13: 978-0449911150
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,451,212 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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