Improving the odds for America's children : future directions in policy and practice

著者

• McCartney, Kathleen
• Yoshikawa, Hirokazu
• Forcier, Laurie B.

書誌事項

Improving the odds for America's children : future directions in policy and practice

Kathleen McCartney, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Laurie B. Forcier, editors ; [foreword by George Miller ; afterword by Marian Wright Edelman]

Harvard Education, c2014

• : pbk

注記

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This landmark volume commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the Children's Defense Fund, which has been an uncompromising champion of American youth for all of those years. Yet the book looks not to the past but at our current circumstances - and at the challenges we must meet now and in the future on behalf of our young people. The book examines critical issues - prenatal and infant health and development, early childcare and education, school reform, the achievement gap, vulnerable children, juvenile justice, and child poverty - and highlights crucial practical and policy measures we need to consider and undertake if we are to better serve American children. An invaluable survey of the conditions facing American youth - and a call to action at the local, state, and national levels - Improving the Odds for America's Children is an urgent, informative, and inspired volume that addresses shortcomings and challenges we cannot afford to ignore.

目次

CONTENTS Foreword by Congressman George Miller ix Introduction Kathleen McCartney, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, and Laurie B. Forcier 1 Prenatal and Infant health and Development 1 Health Care for Children: Forty Years of Health Policy 13 Sara Rosenbaum and Partow Zomorrodian 2 A Healthy Start Before and After Birth: Applying the Biology of Adversity to Build the Capabilities of Caregivers 28 Jack P. Shonkoff Early Childhood Care and Education 3 A Great Beginning: Ensuring Early Opportunities forAmerica’s Young Children 43 Joan Lombardi 4 A Future for Preschool in the United States: Integrating Innovations from Global Perspectives 58 Hirokazu Yoshikawa and Kathleen McCartney School Reform 5 The Past as Prologue to the Future: Envisioning School Reform for the Twenty-First Century 73 Deborah Jewell-Sherman 6 Building a Twenty-First-Century School System: Creating a Teaching Profession and Multiple Student Pathways 84 Jal Mehta and Robert B. Schwartz The Achievement Gap 7 Confronting the Achievement Gap: A District-Level Perspective 101 Jerry D. Weast 8 Rising Inequality and the School Performance of Low- and High-Income Children 121 Greg J. Duncan and Richard J. Murnane Vulnerable Children 9 Beyond Child Protection: Helping All Families Provide Adequate Parenting 135 Michael S. Wald 10 Child Protection and Child Welfare: Meeting the Needs of Vulnerable Children 148 Jane Waldfogel Juvenile Justice 11 The Wheel Turns: Recreating a System of Justice for Juveniles 161 Robert G. Schwartz 12 Using Scientific Research to Transform Juvenile Justice Policy and Practice: A Modest Success Story and Some Suggestions for the Next Four Decades 174 Laurence Steinberg Child Poverty 13 Policies to Reduce Poverty: Supporting Family Income as an Investment in Children’s Futures 189 Arloc Sherman, Robert Greenstein, and Sharon Parrott 14 The State of Research on Children and Families in Poverty: Past, Present, and Future Empirical Avenues of Promise 203 Eric Dearing Afterword by Marian Wright Edelman 217 Notes 221 Acknowledgments 255 About the Editors 257 About the Contributors 259 Index 265

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB19160648
• ISBN:
  • 9781612506890
• LCCN: 2013953416
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Cambridge, Mass.
• ページ数/冊数: xii, 274 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 362.7
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Child welfare -- United States