Messages From Home: The Parent-Child Home Program for Overcoming Educational Disadvantage
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Combining lively writing and scientific rigor, this expanded and updated edition of Messages from Home describes the methods and continued success of The Parent-Child Home Program. Spearheaded by the late Phyllis Levenstein, this pre-preschool home visiting program prepares at-risk children to succeed in school, overcoming educational disadvantage.
Foreword Kathryn E. Barnard ixCoauthor's Preface Susan Levenstein xiiiPrologue to the Second Edition Phyllis Levenstein xxiChronology xxviiIntroduction 1Two Mothers, Two Children: Program Participants 5Poverty in the Twenty-First Century: Parental Love Fights Back 23"Show, Not Tell": The Parent-Child Home Program Method 39Underpinnings: The Theory behind The Parent-Child Home Program 71How Effective Is The Parent-Child Home Program? 86Methodological Issues in Intervention Research: Lessons from The Parent-Child Home Program Experience 110From Laboratory to Real World: Successful Replication of a Successful Intervention 124Preventing a Dream from Becoming a Nightmare: The Ethics of Home Visiting Programs 153Ludic Literacy: Prelude to Instrumental Literacy 160Messages from Home: Meditations and Conclusions 168The Parent-Child Home Program in Writing: Publications by and about the Program, 1968-2007 182Outcome Measures Created by The Parent-Child Home Program 229References 233Index 249
