This handbook provides holistic coverage of the role of the family and their children's education from pre-school through postsecondary education by focusing on understanding how education actions, interests, and sanctions are developed and reinforced in the home, community, and school, rather than concentrating on connections between the family and the school. It pays particular attention to the changes in the organization of schooling including variations in types of schools such as Charters, standards for learning, accountability systems, teacher performance assessment, and their links and consequences on various student outcomes. A special section is devoted to the work of sociologists of education who are undertaking methodological work for studying social systems including network analyses, impact of household resources on educational mobility, and school and teacher effects. The widening interest in higher education today needs a more comprehensive and deeper focus on the changing landscape of higher education institutions and their respective populations, and how labor market opportunities are enhanced or impeded by different postsecondary education, trainings, and occupational pathways. This handbook serves as a reference work for education stakeholders, as well as educational policy and sociology of education researchers.