Format:
Online-Ressource (XIV, 317 p, online resource)
ISBN:
9789462095212
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Content:
Preliminary Material /Bruce J. Biddle -- An Elephant and an Enigma /Bruce J. Biddle -- Youth Poverty in America /Bruce J. Biddle -- Youth Poverty in the Industrialized World /Bruce J. Biddle -- Poverty in Homes and Educational Failure /Bruce J. Biddle -- Poverty in Neighborhoods and Educational Failure /Bruce J. Biddle -- Poverty in Schools and Educational Failure /Bruce J. Biddle -- The American Context, Strategies, and Tactics /Bruce J. Biddle -- References /Bruce J. Biddle -- Name Index /Bruce J. Biddle -- Subject Index /Bruce J. Biddle -- About the Author /Bruce J. Biddle.
Content:
The Unacknowledged Disaster concerns two huge and closely-tied but widely ignored problems that plague the U. S. On the one hand, America tolerates a massive amount of youth poverty, while on the other, youth poverty is the major social factor generating failure in the country’s education. (More than one-fifth of American youths are now impoverished—a poverty rate far worse than those for American adults or the elderly and more than twice the size of youth poverty rates in other advanced nations—and poverty generates most educational failure effects in the U. S. often assigned to such factors as student race, broken homes, and the supposed failures of teachers and school administrators. ) These problems have been studied extensively, and the tragedies they create are well known to scholars, but they are often misrepresented, misunderstood, or unacknowledged by far-right advocates, media figures, policy makers, and those concerned with serious problems that now beset the United States. This book reviews evidence concerning these problems and their dire effects, discusses ineffective or tragic outcomes that result when these problems are ignored, assesses why these problems are so often unacknowledged in the United States, and sets forth clear, evidence-based policies that can reduce the disastrous scope of American youth poverty and its destructive effects in education
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PERMISSIONS; CHAPTER ONE: AN ELEPHANT AND AN ENIGMA; LARGE, GREY ELEPHANT; The Elephant; The Enigma; The Task and the Context; NOTES; CHAPTER TWO: YOUTH POVERTY IN AMERICA; POVERTY AND ITS ASSESSMENT; Defining Poverty; Assessing Poverty; THE SCOPE OF YOUTH POVERTY; Poverty Rates and Numbers; Problems Associated with Youth Poverty; Blacks, Hispanics, and Youth Poverty; Does Youth Poverty Persist?; The Geography of Youth Poverty; Youth Poverty and Single-Parent Families; Youth Poverty and Parental Employment; Parental Salaries and Youth Poverty
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FINDINGS AND IMPLICATIONSNOTES; CHAPTER THREE: YOUTH POVERTY IN THE INDUSTRIALIZED WORLD; YOUTH POVERTY AND ITS EFFECTS IN ADVANCED NATIONS; Youth Poverty Rates Compared; Consequences of Youth Poverty; WHY ARE YOUTH POVERTY RATES LOWER ELSEWHERE?; Wages for Low-Income Workers; Taxes, Social Benefits, and Poverty Reduction; Tax Relief; Cash-Award Benefits; Noncash Benefits; FINDINGS AND IMPLICATIONS; NOTES; CHAPTER FOUR: POVERTY IN HOMES AND EDUCATIONAL FAILURE; EXPLORATORY SURVEYS, CONFUSIONS, AND A STRONG ASSOCIATION; CAUSAL ISSUES, OTHER TYPES OF RESEARCH, AND ADDITIONAL FINDINGS
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Panel-Study EvidenceStudies with Controls; Pathway Analysis; Experiments; FINDINGS AND IMPLICATIONS; NOTES; CHAPTER FIVE: POVERTY IN NEIGHBORHOODS AND EDUCATIONAL FAILURE; NEIGHBORHOOD POVERTY AND ITS EFFECTS; Dilemmas in Surveys and Panel Studies; Conclusions from Surveys and Panel Studies; Experiments; FINDINGS AND IMPLICATIONS; NOTES; CHAPTER SIX: POVERTY IN SCHOOLS AND EDUCATIONAL FAILURE; STUDENT POVERTY CONCENTRATION; Differences in Student Poverty Concentration; Poverty Concentration and Student Failure; INADEQUATE SCHOOL FUNDING; Funding Disparities; Outrageous Claims
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Miserable Funding and School FailureMultiple Disadvantages; Funding, Resources, and Outcomes; DISCRIMINATORY PROCEDURES; Tracking, Enrichment, and Remediation; The Long Hot Summer; FINDINGS AND IMPLICATIONS; NOTES; CHAPTER SEVEN: THE AMERICAN CONTEXT, STRATEGIES, AND TACTICS; THE AMERICAN CONTEXT; Communitarianism; The Importance of Public Education; Exceptionalism; Hostility to Corrupt Elites; Race and Ethnicity; Guns and Violence; The Far Right, Money, Lies, and Activism; GENERAL STRATEGIES FOR ACTION; Focus on Youths; Entitlements; Poverty Focus; Federal and State Support
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Multiple RationalesThe Marketing of Evidence; An Advocacy Organization; Political Leadership; Commentary; TACTICS FOR REDUCING YOUTH POVERTY; Cash Benefits; Noncash Benefits; TACTICS FOR REDUCING POVERTY EFFECTS IN EDUCATION; How Not to Proceed; Home-Based Tactics; Neighborhood-Based Tactics; School-Based Tactics I-Coping With Poverty Concentration; School-Based Tactics II-Improving Funding and Resources for Impoverished Schools; School-Based Tactics III-Reducing Discriminatory Procedures; CONCLUDING THOUGHTS; NOTES; REFERENCES; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789462095205
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Unacknowledged Disaster: Youth Poverty and Educational Failure in America Leiden Boston : Brill | Sense, 2014
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-6209-521-2
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