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Securing the future : investing in children from birth to college / Sheldon Danziger and Jane Waldfogel, editors.
LIBRA HV741 .S385 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Ford Foundation series on asset building
- The Ford Foundation series on asset building
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child welfare--United States.
- Child welfare.
- Children--Government policy.
- Children.
- United States.
- Children--United States--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Children--Government policy--United States.
- Youth--United States--Social conditions.
- Youth.
- Youth--Government policy--United States.
- Youth--Government policy.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2000]
- Contents:
- Foreword / Melvin L. Oliver.
- Investing in children : What do we know? What should we do? / Sheldon Danziger and Jane Waldfogel.
- Trends in and consequences of investments in children / Lisa M. Lynch.
- Rethinking education and training policy : understanding the sources of skill formation in a modern economy / James J. Heckman and Lance Lochner.
- Pathways to early child health and development / Barry Zuckerman and Robert Kahn.
- Early childhood experiences and developmental competence / Sharon Landesman Ramey and Craig T. Ramey.
- Schooling's influences on motivation and achievement / Jacquelynne S. Eccles and Allan Wigfield.
- Promoting positive outcomes for youth : resourceful families and communities / Margaret Beale Spencer and Dena Phillips Swanson.
- The neighborhood context of investing in children : facilitating mechanism and undermining risks / Robert J. Sampson.
- The transition from school to work : Is there a crisis? What can be done? / Debra Donahoe and Marta Tienda.
- New directions in job training strategies for the disadvantaged / Hillard Pouncy.
- Who is getting a college education? Family background and the growing gaps in enrollment / David T. Ellwood and Thomas J. Kane.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0871548992
- OCLC:
- 43599139
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