Families and Educators as Partners: Issues and Challenges, 2nd Edition offers a wealth of new information that will prove beneficial to everyone in education both public and private, that are concerned with building meaningful partnerships with families. Complete with practical strategies, the new edition covers diversity in families, neglect and abuse, and an expanded chapter on dealing with children with special needs and their families. Students, beginning teachers, Pre-service teachers and aspiring administrators will be given practical examples of positive home-school written communication strategies from both the classroom and school/center perspective.