Waiting for a Miracle: Why Schools Can't Solve Our Problems--and how We Can

Waiting for a Miracle: Why Schools Can't Solve Our Problems--and how We Can
ISBN-10
0452276462
ISBN-13
9780452276468
Category
Education
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
Plume Books
Author
James P. Comer

Description

It is the thesis of this provocative book that the deteriorating state of America's public school system is actually a reflection of the problems in our culture and society. In "Waiting For A Miracle," James P. Comer M.D., Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Yale University Child Study Center and the author of Maggie's American Dream, and co-author of Raising Black Children, outlines the cause of these afflictions and presents an inspiring paradigm for a new way of thinking and acting with regard to children and family.At the root of the problem, he states, is a social failure to make a commitment to families, and to community and child development.Using many examples from his personal experience of growing up poor, and from more than thirty years of community involvement, Comer argues that schools can be the most important instrument of change in a society. He spells out how private, public and non-profit sectors can collaborate to enable children, families, and communities to survive and thrive.

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