TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCartney,Kathleen
AU  - Yoshikawa,Hirokazu
AU  - Forcier,Laurie B.
TI  - Improving the odds for America's children: future directions in policy and practice 
SN  - 9781612506906
AV  - HV741 .I533 2014
U1  - 362.70973 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard Education Press
KW  - Child welfare
KW  - Government policy
KW  - United States
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-254) and index; Foreword / by Congressman; George Miller --; Introduction; Kathleen McCartney; Hirokazu Yoshikawa; and; Laurie B. Forcier --; Prenatal and infant health development; Health care for children : forty years of health policy; Sara Rosenbaum; and; Partow Zomorrodian; A healthy start before and after birth : applying the biology of adversity to build the capabilities of caregivers; Jack P. Shonkoff --; Early childhood care and education; A great beginning : ensuring early opportunities for America's young children; Joan Lombardi; A future for preschool in the United States : integrating innovations from global perspectives; Hirokazu Yoshikawa; and; Kathleen McCartney --; School reform; The past as prologue to the future : envisioning school reform for the twenty-first century; Deborah Jewell-Sherman; Building a twenty-first-century school system : creating a teaching profession and multiple student pathways; Jal Mehta; and; Robert B. Schwartz --; The achievement gap; Confronting the achievement gap : a district-level perspective; Jerry D. Weast; Rising inequality and the school performance of low- and high-income children; Greg J. Duncan; and; Richard J. Murnane --; Vulnerable children; Beyond child protection : helping all families provide adequate parenting; Michael S. Wald; Child protection and child welfare : meeting the needs of vulnerable children; Jane Waldfogel --; Juvenile justice; The wheel turns : recreating a system of justice for juveniles; Robert G. Schwartz; Using scientific research to transform juvenile justice policy and practice : a modest success story and some suggestions for the next four decades; Laurence Steinberg --; Child poverty; Policies to reduce poverty : supporting family income as an investment in children's futures; Arloc Sherman; Robert Greenstein; and; Sharon Parrott; The state of research on children and families in poverty : past, present, and future empirical avenues of promise; Eric Dearing --; Afterword; by; Marian Wright Edelman
N2  - "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
ER  -