The Unacknowledged Disaster —— Youth Poverty and Educational Failure in America

----- 未被承认的灾难：美国青年贫困与教育失败

ISBN: 9789462095205 出版年：2014 页码：331 Bruce Biddle Brill

The Unacknowledged Disaster concerns two huge and closely-tied but widely ignored problems that plague the U. S. On the one hand, America tolerates a massive amount of youth poverty, while on the other, youth poverty is the major social factor generating failure in the country’s education. This book reviews evidence concerning these problems and their dire effects, discusses ineffective or tragic outcomes that result when these problems are ignored, assesses why these problems are so often unacknowledged in the United States, and sets forth clear, evidence-based policies that can reduce the disastrous scope of American youth poverty and its destructive effects in education.