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The achievement gap : a poverty crisis, not an education crisis / Michele Wages.
Lippincott Library HC110.P6 W22 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wages, Michele, 1965- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poverty--United States.
- Poverty.
- Children with social disabilities.
- Social conditions.
- Poor children.
- United States.
- Poor children--United States--Social conditions.
- Children with social disabilities--United States--Social conditions.
- Children with social disabilities--Social conditions.
- Poor children--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 77 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Dr. Wages has written a detailed, well documented book that can serve as an informative resource to create an awareness of the multidimensional and complex issues of poverty"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Child poverty
- Unemployment
- Race and poverty
- Family characteristics
- School behavior
- Homelessness
- Gangs and poverty
- Why has the income achievement gap grown?
- Is government assistance the answer?
- What needs to be done?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wages, Michele, 1965- Achievement gap.
- ISBN:
- 9781475841916
- 1475841914
- 9781475841909
- 1475841906
- OCLC:
- 1035367485
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