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The Price We Pay : Economic And Social Consequences Of Inadequate Education

  • The Price We Pay : Economic And Social Consequences Of Inadequate Education

  • Attribution

    Clive R. Belfield, Henry M. Levin, editors

  • Publication Details

    Book, Brookings Institution Press, 2007

  • Availability

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  LC66 .P735 2007  AVAILABLE

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  • Description

    Ferguson (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University), Irwin Garfinkel (School of Social Work, Columbia University), Brendan Kelly (School of Social Work, Columbia University), Enrico Moretti (University of California-Berkeley), Peter Muennig (Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University), Michael A. Rebell (Teachers College, Columbia University), Richard Rothstein (Teachers College, Columbia University), Cecilia Elena Rouse (Princeton University), Marta Tienda (Princeton University), Jane Waldfogel (School of Social Work, Columbia University), and Tamara Wilder (Teachers College, Columbia University). (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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  • Notes

    • "Highlights costs of inadequate education, attaching hard numbers to the relationship between educational attainment and critical indicators as income, health, crime, dependence on public assistance, and political participation. Explores policy interventions to boost the education system’s performance and explains why demographic trends are so challenging to educating the nation’s youth"–Provided by publisher

  • Contents

    • Theeducation attainment gap : who’s affected, how much, and why it matters /Clive R. Belfield,Henry M. Levin - -|gAssessing the scope of the challenge
    • Beyond educational attainment : a multifaceted approach to examining economic inequalities /Richard Rothstein, Tamara Wilder
    • Diversity and the demographic dividend : achieving educational equity in an aging white society / Marta Tienda,Sigal Alon
    • Implications of educational inequality in a global economy /Thomas Bailey
    • |gQuantifying the costs of inadequate education - -Consequences for the labor market /Cecilia Elena Rouse
    • Consequences in health status and costs /Peter Muennig
    • Crime and the costs of criminal justice / Enrico Moretti
    • Welfare and the costs of public assistance /Jane Waldfogel,Irwin Garfinkel,Brendan Kelly
    • |gDirections for reform
    • Educational interventions to raise high school graduation rates / Henry M. Levin,Clive R. Belfield
    • |gThepromise of early childhood interventions /Clive R. Belfield
    • Toward excellence with equity : the role of parenting and transformative school reform /Ronald F. Ferguson
    • |gTheneed for comprehensive educational equity / Michael A. Rebell

  • ISBN

    • 0815708637
    • 9780815708636
    • 0815708645
    • 9780815708643

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