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The Demands of Mrs. West, Deceased
It was the summer of 1957 in Toronto. Reggie Clark, a reporter for the Toronto Mirror, was doing his usual; drinking too much, listening to bad music, and chasing after leads and women when it happened. He sat alone in Champ's Bar on Queen Street West and had just put the beer to his mouth when he heard the sound of fingers scratching on a blackboard, a sound he detested but no one else heard it. There was no blackboard in the bar. Back at his rooming house, he heard nails on a blackboard and a voice asking if he was paying attention. That was his introduction to Mrs. West, recently deceased and their connection. He had one task, to find out who murdered her. Anyone who knew Reggie could ass...
Family Life and School Achievement
Working mothers, broken homes, poverty, racial or ethnic background, poorly educated parents—these are the usual reasons given for the academic problems of poor urban children. Reginald M. Clark contends, however, that such structural characteristics of families neither predict nor explain the wide variation in academic achievement among children. He emphasizes instead the total family life, stating that the most important indicators of academic potential are embedded in family culture. To support his contentions, Clark offers ten intimate portraits of Black families in Chicago. Visiting the homes of poor one- and two-parent families of high and low achievers, Clark made detailed observati...
The Parent-centered Early School
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
