The Dynamics Of Opportunity In America —— Evidence And Perspectives

----- 美国时机动态：证据与展望

ISBN: 9783319259895 出版年：2016 页码：508 Kirsch, Irwin Springer

Across the country, our children are beginning life from very different starting points. Some have aspirations and believe they can be achieved. For too many others, aspirations are tempered, if not dashed, by the sobering realities of everyday life. These different starting points place children on distinctly different trajectories of growth and development, ultimately leading to vastly different adult outcomes. How did we get to a place where circumstances of birth have become so determinative? and what must we do, within communities and across our country, to better equalize opportunity for more americans – both young and old? the editors of this volume contend that if, as a nation, we do nothing, then we will continue to drift apart, placing an unsustainable strain on the nation’s social fabric and the character of its democracy.