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Giving Kids a Fair Chance (Paperback)
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Giving Kids a Fair Chance (Paperback)
Series: Boston Review Books
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A top economist weighs in on one of the most urgent questions of
our times: What is the source of inequality and what is the remedy?
In Giving Kids a Fair Chance, Nobel Prize-winning economist James
Heckman argues that the accident of birth is the greatest source of
inequality in America today. Children born into disadvantage are,
by the time they start kindergarten, already at risk of dropping
out of school, teen pregnancy, crime, and a lifetime of low-wage
work. This is bad for all those born into disadvantage and bad for
American society. Current social and education policies directed
toward children focus on improving cognition, yet success in life
requires more than smarts. Heckman calls for a refocus of social
policy toward early childhood interventions designed to enhance
both cognitive abilities and such non-cognitive skills as
confidence and perseverance. This new focus on preschool
intervention would emphasize improving the early environments of
disadvantaged children and increasing the quality of parenting
while respecting the primacy of the family and America's cultural
diversity. Heckman shows that acting early has much greater
positive economic and social impact than later interventions-which
range from reduced pupil-teacher ratios to adult literacy programs
to expenditures on police-that draw the most attention in the
public policy debate. At a time when state and local budgets for
early interventions are being cut, Heckman issues an urgent call
for action and offers some practical steps for how to design and
pay for new programs. The debate that follows delves deeply into
some of the most fraught questions of our time: the sources of
inequality, the role of schools in solving social problems, and how
to invest public resources most effectively. Mike Rose, Geoffrey
Canada, Charles Murray, Carol Dweck, Annette Lareau, and other
prominent experts participate.
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