Securing the Future - Investing in Children from Birth to College (Paperback)

More than ever, the economic health of a country depends upon the skills, knowledge, and capacities of its people. How does a person acquire these human assets and how can we promote their development? Securing the Future assembles an interdisciplinary team of scholars to investigate the full range of factors pediatric, psychological, social, and economic that bear on a child's development into a well-adjusted, economically productive member of society. A central purpose of the volume is to identify sound interventions that will boost human assets, particularly among the disadvantaged. The book provides a comprehensive evaluation of current initiatives and offers a wealth of new suggestions for effective public and private investments in child development. While children from affluent, highly educated families have good quality child care and an expensive education provided for them, children from poor families make do with informal child care and a public school system that does not always meet their needs. How might we best redress this growing imbalance? The contributors to this volume recommend policies that treat academic attainment together with psychological development and social adjustment. Mentoring programs, for example, promote better school performance by first fostering a young person's motivation to learn. Investments made early in life, such as preschool education, are shown to have the greatest impact on later learning for the least cost.Securing the Future shows how investments in child development are both a means to an end and an end in themselves. They benefit the child directly and they also help that child contribute to the well-being of society. This book points us toward more effective strategies for promoting the economic success and the social cohesion of future generations."

General

Imprint:	Russell Sage Foundation
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Ford Foundation Asset Building
Release date:	November 2005
First published:	November 2005
Editors:	Sheldon Danziger • Jane Waldfogel
Dimensions:	237 x 169 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	346
ISBN-13:	978-0-87154-280-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Children Promotions
LSN:	0-87154-280-3
Barcode:	9780871542809

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