Title: Parents as Talent Developers: Essential Parenting Tools of Exceptional Parents
Author: James Reed Campbell; Brenda Harewood
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524655090
Pages: 154
Genre: Parenting

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Synopsis

Our purpose in writing this book is to give minority parents (African American, Latino) the tools they need to help their children perform much better in school. The content of the book comes from discovering actual parental practices used by minority families whose children excel at school. Our research teams went to public schools in minority neighborhoods in New York City and Long Island to find high-achieving minority children. We then visited their families and interviewed the parents and children separately to uncover what the parents did to warrant such high achievement. It is these minority parents who are the instructors in this book. We have talked with them, wrote down their stories, and extracted the parental practices that we call “kernels.” Kernels are seeds in the plant world. The kernels on an ear of corn are the seeds needed to grow the next generation of corn. We use this term in the sense that each parental practice that we highlight in this book should be viewed as a seed for a child’s academic growth. Our research teams highlight ninety-six kernels and embed many more practices in the text that bolster academic achievement. It is a resource that minority parents can use to give their children the opportunities that result from an emphasis on academics. The book is also designed for educators to use in their everyday interactions with minority and nonminority parents.

About the Author

Dr. James Reed Campbell is an established researcher on the national and international scene. He has authored six books and more than two hundred ninety articles and research reports. He is best known for his books for parents. He is currently a professor at St. John’s University in New York and was formerly a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Dr. Campbell has fifty years’ experience as an educator. Among the gifted research community, he is recognized as the originator of the International Academic Olympiad studies. In 2012, he received an American Educational Research Association Lifetime Achievement Award for scholarship and service. Dr. Brenda Williams Harewood is the youngest of ten children born to Preston and Pearl Williams. She was raised in the Hammels Projects, Rockaway Beach, New York, and is a proud graduate of the City University of New York and the city’s public schools. She has thirty-plus years as a school educator, including leadership positions in four schools as principal and assistant principal at the Clinton Hill School/PS 20K, principal of Northern Parkway School, principal of Cornelius Court School Success Academy, and currently serves as the principal of Uniondale’s first prekindergarten school. She served in other leadership positions as president of the Friends of the Uniondale Public Library, copresident of the Phi Delta Kappa / St. John’s University Chapter, secretary of the Jonathan Brown Scholarship Committee, executive director of the Nassau County New York Alliance of Black School Educators, and secretary of the Long Island Council of Administrative Women in Education.

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