@article{704798,
      author = {Biddle, Bruce J.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/704798},
      title = {The unacknowledged disaster : youth poverty and  educational failure in America /},
      abstract = {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 countrys  education. (More than one-fifth of American youths are now  impoverisheda 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 nationsand 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.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-521-2},
      recid = {704798},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiii, 317 pages)},
}