While the high cost of education draws headlines, the cost of not
educating America's children goes largely ignored. The Price We Pay
remedies this oversight by highlighting the private and public
costs of inadequate education. In this volume, leading scholars
from a broad range of fields -including economics, education,
demography, and public health -attach hard numbers to the
relationship between educational attainment and such critical
indicators as income, health, crime, dependence on public
assistance, and political participation. They explore policy
interventions that could boost the education system's performance
and explain why demographic trends make the challenge of educating
our youth so urgent today. Improving educational outcomes for
at-risk youth is more than a noble goal. It is an investment with
the potential to yield benefits that far outstrip its costs. The
Price We Pay provides the tools readers need to analyze both sides
of the balance sheet and make informed decisions about which
policies will pay off. Contributors include Thomas Bailey (Teachers
College, Columbia University), Ronald F. Ferguson (Harvard
University), Irwin Garfinkel (Columbia University), Jane Junn
(Rutgers University), Brendan Kelly (Columbia University), Enrico
Moretti (UCLA), Peter Muennig (Columbia University), Michael Rebell
(Teachers College, Columbia University), Richard Rothstein
(Teachers College, Columbia University), Cecilia E. Rouse
(Princeton University), Marta Tienda (Princeton University), Jane
Waldfogel (Columbia University), and Tamara Wilder (Teachers
College, Columbia University).
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