Umfang:
Online-Ressource (viii, 273 p)
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ill
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23 cm
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0815708637
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9780815708636
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9780815708643
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0815708645
Inhalt:
"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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Information; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; The Education Attainment Gap: Who's Affected, How Much, and Why It Matters; Part One: Assessing the Scope of the Challenge; Beyond Educational Attainment: A Multifaceted Approach to Examining Economic Inequalities; Diversity and the Demographic Dividend: Achieving Educational Equity in an Aging White Society; Implications of Educational Inequality in a Global Economy; Part Two: Quantifying the Costs of Inadequate Education; Consequences for the Labor Market; Consequences in Health Status and Costs
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Crime and the Costs of Criminal JusticeWelfare and the Costs of Public Assistance; Part Three: Directions for Reform; Educational Interventions to Raise High School Graduation Rates; The Promise of Early Childhood Education Interventions; Toward Excellence with Equity: The Role of Parenting and Transformative School Reform; The Need for Comprehensive Educational Equity; Contributors; Index; Back Cover
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780815708636
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Price We Pay : Economic and Social Consequences of Inadequate Education
Sprache:
Englisch
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