Families, COVID, and Unequal Schooling in the US: Resilient Learning Ecologies, Intersectional Portraits, and Layered Theoretical Perspectives [Hardcover]

Part I: Families, COVID, And Unequal Schooling; 1. Same Storm, Different Boats: Learning from Families Under Duress to Frame a More Resilient Future; Part II: Families Experiences: Responding to School Needs and Organizing Learning at Home; 2. Shifting Frames in the Service of Learning: Caregivers as Collaborators and Co-Designers during School Closures; 3. WE GOT DIS: Black and Brown Family Literacy Practices in the Pandemic; 4. Digital Screens as Teachers during the Pandemic; 5. Blocking, Filtering, Brokering, Collaborating: Caregiver Information Management Practices during Covid-19 Lockdowns; 6. Educating Whose Children? Reflecting on Families COVID Experiences through a Childs Pandemic Communication with Her Academic Mother in Pictures, Post-its, and Portraits; Part III: What Was Learned from Families and Their Wider System Interactions; 7. Educator Actions to Care for Youth and Families of Color during the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic; 8. Four Dimensions of Equity-Oriented Family-School Partnerships: Lessons from Family Engagement during the Pandemic; 9. Lessons to Keep: Learning in the Time of Covid; 10. A Tale of Two Working Mothers: The Intersection of COVID-19 and Feminism in the United States; 11. Administrator Work and Parent Responses during COVID School Closures: A Case Study in a K-8 District; 12. A Different Narrative: Centering Black Families in Pandemic Remote Learning; Part IV: Conclusions and Implications for the Future; 13. Building Bridges with Families for Equitable Learning and Schooling

This book explores how parents became education partners in new and unexpected ways during the COVID pandemic. Emerging from a range of research studies, it reframes how researchers, educators, school leaders, and policy makers can establish and foster equitable partnerships with families.