The unacknowledged disaster : youth poverty and educational failure in America / Bruce J. Biddle.
2014
LC4091 .B53 2014eb
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Title
The unacknowledged disaster : youth poverty and educational failure in America / Bruce J. Biddle.
Author
Biddle, Bruce J., author.
ISBN
9789462095212 electronic book
9462095213 electronic book
9789462095205
9789462095199
9462095213 electronic book
9789462095205
9789462095199
Published
Rotterdam, The Netherlands : Sense Publishers, [2014]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 317 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-94-6209-521-2 doi
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LC4091 .B53 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
371.826942
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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