'No matter how much you do inside the school, you can make virtually no impact at all (on children's achievements) without the informed support of the home .... Whether we like it or not' the family and neighboumood contexts 'are the true and influential educators; we ignore them at our peril.' (Midwinter 1975 p. 61).
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