Improving the odds for America's children : future directions in policy and practice /
Kathleen McCartney, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Laurie B. Forcier, editors.
- xii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-254) and index.
Prenatal and infant health development. Health care for children : forty years of health policy / A healthy start before and after birth : applying the biology of adversity to build the capabilities of caregivers / Early childhood care and education. A great beginning : ensuring early opportunities for America's young children / A future for preschool in the United States : integrating innovations from global perspectives / School reform. The past as prologue to the future : envisioning school reform for the twenty-first century / Building a twenty-first-century school system : creating a teaching profession and multiple student pathways / The achievement gap. Confronting the achievement gap : a district-level perspective / Rising inequality and the school performance of low- and high-income children / Vulnerable children. Beyond child protection : helping all families provide adequate parenting / Child protection and child welfare : meeting the needs of vulnerable children / Juvenile justice. The wheel turns : recreating a system of justice for juveniles / Using scientific research to transform juvenile justice policy and practice : a modest success story and some suggestions for the next four decades / Child poverty. Policies to reduce poverty : supporting family income as an investment in children's futures / The state of research on children and families in poverty : past, present, and future empirical avenues of promise / George Miller -- Kathleen McCartney, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Laurie B. Forcier -- Sara Rosenbaum Partow Zomorrodian ; Jack P. Shonkoff -- Joan Lombardi ; Hirokazu Yoshikawa Kathleen McCartney -- 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 ; Eric Dearing -- Marian Wright Edelman. Foreword / by Congressman Introduction / and and and and and and Afterword / by
"The book examines critical issues--prenatal and infant health and development, early child care 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."--Publisher's Web site.
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016697762 Uk
Child welfare--Government policy--United States. Child welfare--Government policy.