Improving the Odds for America's Children
Future Directions in Policy and Practice
Kathleen McCartney, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Laurie B. Forcier, Kathleen McCartney, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Laurie B. Forcier
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Improving the Odds for America's Children
Future Directions in Policy and Practice
Kathleen McCartney, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Laurie B. Forcier, Kathleen McCartney, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Laurie B. Forcier
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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 circumstancesâand at the challenges we must meet now and in the future on behalf of our young people. The book examines critical issuesâprenatal and infant health and development, early child care and education, school reform, the achievement gap, vulnerable children, juvenile justice, and child povertyâand 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 youthâand a call to action at the local, state, and national levelsâ Improving the Odds for America's Children is an urgent, informative, and inspired volume that addresses shortcomings and challenges we cannot afford to ignore. Contributors include Sara Rosenbaum, Partow Zomorrodian, Jack P. Shonkoff, Joan Lombardi, Deborah Jewell- Sherman, Jal Mehta, Robert B. Schwartz, Jerry D. Weast, Greg J. Duncan, Richard J. Murnane, Michael S. Wald, Jane Waldfogel, Robert G. Schwartz, Laurence Steinberg, Arloc Sherman, Robert Greenstein, Sharon Parrott, and Eric Dearing.