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Beyond the Classroom: Why School Reform Has Failed and What Parents Need to Do Paperback – October 17, 1997

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Drawing on a nationwide survey encompassing all ethnic and socioeconomic groups, Beyond the Classroom identifies the real nature of the education crisis in America.

Laurence Steinberg shares a study of American education as he argues that parents and peers are critical in the success of schools, offering specific ideas on how to improve the nation’s education system.
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Laurence Steinberg, PhD, is considered to be the world’s leading authority on adolescence and young adulthood. He currently is the Distinguished University Professor and Laurel H. Carnell Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Temple University. In addition to authoring the leading college textbook on adolescence, just published in its thirteenth edition, Larry has authored or coauthored nearly 500 scholarly articles on adolescence as well as seventeen books. His trade books include The 10 Basic Principles of Good Parenting, which has been translated into ten other languages; You and Your Adolescent; and most recently, Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence, which has been translated into seven other languages.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (October 17, 1997)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0684835754
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0684835754
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches
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    Laurence Steinberg , Ph.D., is the Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Temple University. A nationally recognized expert on parent-child relations and psychological development during adolescence, Dr. Steinberg is the author of approximately 500 articles and essays on growth and development during the teenage years, and the author, co-author, or editor of 18 books, including AGE OF OPPORTUNITY: LESSONS FROM THE NEW SCIENCE OF ADOLESCENCE and ADOLESCENCE, the leading college textbook on this age period, now in its 13th edition.

    Dr. Steinberg has been a guest on numerous television programs, including Today, The CBS Early Show, Good Morning America, 20/20, Dateline, 48 Hours, the PBS News Hour, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. He is a frequent consultant on child and adolescent development for print and electronic media, including The New York Times and National Public Radio. Please visit www.laurencesteinberg.com for more information.

    His latest book, YOU AND YOUR ADULT CHILD: HOW TO GROW TOGETHER IN CHALLENGING TIMES, will be published by Simon & Schuster in April, 2023. For more information on the book, go to https://www.laurencesteinberg.com/books/you-and-your-adult-child. For media inquiries about the book, email anne.pearce@simonandschuster.com

    For speaking engagements, Dr. Steinberg is exclusively represented by The Lavin Agency. Please contact Charles Yao, Director of Intellectual Talent, at cyao@thelavinagency.com

    For all other media inquiries, please contact Dr. Steinberg directly, at laurence.steinberg@temple.edu

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Shari Garretson
5.0 out of 5 stars A great, insightful
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A great, insightful, surprising book. If you want insights and guidance about how to help your child do their best in school, get this book! I sent it to a friend who was trying to decide which high school to send her daughter to, but it applies to younger children as well.
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5.0 out of 5 stars What every good, reality based teacher already knows...
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but what most parents and people who think they know about teaching because they went to school need to know.
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In summarizing over a decade of academic research into high school student achievement, Laurence Steinberg, in Beyond the Classroom-Why School Reformed has Failed and What Parents Need to Do, poses an alternative hypothesis. He argues that poor student achievement and low student commitment are determined outside the school and therefore, attempts to solve the problem of American education through school reform are ineffective. Steinberg offers that a lack of engagement on the part of students has pervaded American teenagers across all socio-economic layers and is the root cause of school failure.
The author effectively develops his argument by defining and comparing engaged and disengaged students. He then cites research into ethnicity, parenting, extra-curricula activities, and peer grouping as the contributors and distracters to academic engagement. His analysis of the significance of peer group influences provides validation of what many parents would argue as common sense findings. Throughout the text Steinberg masterfully presents traditional arguments from both sides of the political spectrum and answers them with findings supported by research data.
Beyond the Classroom closes with ten recommendations for parents, educators, and government officials. Unfortunately, Steinberg's recommendations suggest that improvement in student performance requires societal structural changes that at best assume active acceptance and participation of a majority of citizens engaged in social reform. However, to believe that a society disengaged from it's educational system - a system responsible in large part for proliferating the attributes of citizenship - can develop the will to make such systematic change is unrealistic.
Perhaps Steinberg's most significant contribution in offering Beyond the Classroom is in dispelling the concept that school reform in the existing school system can in fact solve the problem of low academic performance. This purpose alone makes this book a worthwhile read for those engaged in the welfare of our children.
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Stacy L. Sinclair, Doctoral Student
5.0 out of 5 stars A Must-Read for Those Interested in Reform
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2001
Steinberg's book is a splash of cold water making readers face the real state of student achievement in America by focusing on what is influencing our high school students. Through this 10 year longitudinal study, interviewing more than 20,000 students and their parents, and comparing these findings with other prominent studies, Steinberg uncovers the root causes for low student achievement in America as compared to students in other countries and therefore why school reform initiatives have failed.
With an emphasis on student engagement in learning, the study looks at factors such as parenting strategies, the influence of peers and extracurricular activities. Steinberg looks primarily at issues beyond the school walls as the data shows these influences (large scale) are greater indicators of student success or failure than teacher's classroom practice or organization of the school system. Each factor is analyzed through the lens of socio-economic status, ethnicity, peer relationships and length of time since immigration to this country. As a result, the reader is forced to question the American culture; the attitudes, beliefs and values we perpetuate.
The good news is working hard in school is a strong predictor of academic achievement. Friends and group identity at school make a difference as do parenting techniques. The issues that we need to face are the rampant disengagement of parents in their children's lives, a peer culture that demeans academic success and scorns students who work hard and the negative impact on excessive extracurricular activity on student's achievement.
Steinberg makes 10 recommendations to begin refocusing the country's efforts. Each requires our society to take a good hard look at how we `do business'. To increase academic success for all students will require compromises and change on the part of students, parents, schools, businesses, government and mass media.
In a sobering thought, Steinberg asserts that "no curricular overhaul, no instructional innovation, no change in school organization, no toughening of standards, no rethinking of teacher training or compensation will succeed if students do not come to school interested in, and committed to, learning. In order to understand how this commitment develops, why it has waned over the past three decades, and, more importantly, how we can reengage students in the business of learning, we need to look, not at what goes on inside the classroom, but at students' lives outside the school's walls. Until we do just this, school reform will continue to be a disappointment, and our students' achievement will fail to improve."
I finished the book out of breath. We're in a race to save our children. Will our country pull together in time?
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Jonathan Corey
5.0 out of 5 stars Research that Supports Reality
Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2000
Steinberg's book "Beyond the Classroom" uses extensive research to determine what every teacher knows really goes on in schools. The VAST majority of schools do their very best to prepare students for whatever the student's future holds, but many students and their families don't value the education enough to really work at it. That is why American performance lags behind that of other industrial nations. I teach high school and I see the "slacker" culture that pervades. Although Steinberg would not go that far, I know that the Media portrays underachievers, and goof offs as cool people, and academics as nerds. Many students simply don't make the effort to learn because they take it for granted and they put things like jobs, sports, and social life ahead of study. Our problems with public education do not begin in the schools, the consumer culture of America teachees children how to think and the results are manifest in the schools. His research supports what I see every day in the classroom. I don't buy what conservative policticians say, because they are not on the front lines like I am. They never include teachers in Ed Reform because they see us as part of the problem. We can help make schools better, but only when parents and children care about it enough. Steinberg hits the nail on the head.
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