03357nam a2200433 a 4500 ebr10224509 CaPaEBR 20260707181009.0 m u cr cn||||||||| 070823s2007 dcua sb 001 0 eng 2007034882 9780815708643 (cloth : alk. paper) 0815708645 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780815708636 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0815708637 (pbk. : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)606155186 n-us--- LC66 .P735 2007eb 338.4/737 22 118556 92522 The price we pay [electronic resource] : economic and social consequences of inadequate education / Clive R. Belfield, Henry M. Levin, editors. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2007. viii, 273 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. The education attainment gap : who's affected, how much, and why it matters / Clive R. Belfield and Henry M. Levin -- Assessing the scope of the challenge -- Beyond educational attainment : a multifaceted approach to examining economic inequalities / Richard Rothstein and Tamara Wilder -- Diversity and the demographic dividend : achieving educational equity in an aging white society / Marta Tienda and Sigal Alon -- Implications of educational inequality in a global economy / Thomas Bailey -- Quantifying the costs of inadequate education -- Consequences for the labor market / Cecilia Elena Rouse -- Consequences in health status and costs / Peter Muennig -- Crime and the costs of criminal justice / Enrico Moretti -- Welfare and the costs of public assistance -- Jane Waldfogel, Irwin Garfinkel, and Brendan Kelly -- Directions for reform -- Educational interventions to raise high school graduation rates / Henry M. Levin and Clive R. Belfield -- The promise of early childhood interventions / Clive R. Belfield -- Toward excellence with equity : the role of parenting and transformative school reform / Ronald F. Ferguson -- The need for comprehensive educational equity / Michael A. Rebell. "Highlights costs of inadequate education, attaching hard numbers to the relationship between educational attainment and critical indicators as income, health, crime, dependence on public assistance, and political participation. Explores policy interventions to boost the education system's performance and explains why demographic trends are so challenging to educating the nation's youth"--Provided by publisher. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Education Economic aspects United States. Education Social aspects United States. 48968 Education United States Costs. 164988 Educational equalization United States. 48969 Electronic books. local 190 Belfield, C. R. 164989 Levin, Henry M. 164990 ebrary, Inc. 191 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10224509 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 118556 92522