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Author : George Henderson
Publisher : Norman : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806109466
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book America's Other Children written by George Henderson and published by Norman : University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William J. Bennett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684849305
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Children's Book of America written by William J. Bennett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-11-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents stories of significant events and people in American history, patriotic songs, and American folk tales and poems.
Author : Donald J. Hernandez
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610442865
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book America's Children written by Donald J. Hernandez and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1993-04-08 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's Children offers a valuable overview of the dramatic transformations in American childhood over the past fifty years, a period of historic shifts that reduced the human and material resources available to our children. Alarmingly, one fifth of all U.S. children now grow up in poverty, many are without health insurance, and about 30 percent never graduate from high school. Despite such conditions, economic, family, and educational programs for children earn low national priority and must depend on inconsistent state and local management. Drawing upon both historical and recent data, including census information from 1940 to 1980, Donald J. Hernandez provides a vivid portrait of children in America and puts forth a forceful case for overhauling our national child welfare policies. Hernandez shows how important revolutions in household composition and income, parental education and employment, childcare, and levels of poverty have affected children's well-being. As working wives and single mothers increasingly replace the traditional homemaker, children spend greater portions of time in educational and daycare facilities outside the home, and those with single mothers stand the greatest chance of being welfare dependent. Wider changes in society have created even greater stress for children in certain groups as they age: out-of-wedlock births are on the rise for white teenagers, half of all Hispanic youths never graduate high school, and violence accounts for nearly 90 per cent of all black teenage deaths. America's Children explores the interaction of many trends in children's lives and the fundamental social, demographic, and economic processes that lie at their core. The book concludes with a thoughtful analysis of the ability of families and government to provide for a new age of children, with emphasis on reducing racial inequities and providing greater public support for families, comparable to the family policies of other developed countries. As the traditional "Ozzie and Harriet" family recedes into collective memory, the importance of creating strong national policies for children is amplified, particularly in the areas of financial assistance, health insurance, education, and daycare. America's Children provides a compelling guide for reassessing the forces that shape our children and the resources available to safeguard their future. "In this conceptually creative, methodologically rigorous, and empirically rich book, Hernandez uses census and survey data to describe several quite profound changes that have characterized the life courses of America's children and their families over the last 50 to 150 years....this erudite book is destined to be a classic." —Richard M. Lerner, Contemporary Psychology "America's Children goes a long way toward informing the debate on the causes of increasing poverty, and it challenges some widely held misperceptions....its study of resources available to children (and their families) lays a valuable foundation for surveying trends in family structure, education, and income sources....Anyone interested in the changing lives of children should read it; anyone interested in understanding the causes and patterns of poverty, and in designing a better welfare system, must read it." —Ellen B. Magenheim, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management A Volume in the Russell Sage Foundation Census Series
Author : Dan Yaccarino
Publisher : Dragonfly Books
ISBN 13 : 0375859209
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book All the Way to America: The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel written by Dan Yaccarino and published by Dragonfly Books. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This immigration story is universal.” —School Library Journal, Starred Dan Yaccarino’s great-grandfather arrived at Ellis Island with a small shovel and his parents’ good advice: “Work hard, but remember to enjoy life, and never forget your family.” With simple text and warm, colorful illustrations, Yaccarino recounts how the little shovel was passed down through four generations of this Italian-American family—along with the good advice. It’s a story that will have kids asking their parents and grandparents: Where did we come from? How did our family make the journey all the way to America? “A shovel is just a shovel, but in Dan Yaccarino’s hands it becomes a way to dig deep into the past and honor all those who helped make us who we are.” —Eric Rohmann, winner of the Caldecott Medal for My Friend Rabbit “All the Way to America is a charmer. Yaccarino’s heartwarming story rings clearly with truth, good cheer, and love.” —Tomie dePaola, winner of a Caldecott Honor Award for Strega Nona
Author : Alex Kotlowitz
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307814289
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)
Download or read book There Are No Children Here written by Alex Kotlowitz and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the moving and powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.
Author : David Allen Walsh
Publisher : Fairview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)
Download or read book Selling Out America's Children written by David Allen Walsh and published by Fairview Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Selling Out America's Children, author David Walsh examines why essential morals and values are missing in today's youth. We sell violence, irresponsible sex, and materialism to our children with the overwhelming power of modern media; in light of such odds, it is not surprising that parents find it increasingly difficult to counteract society's harmful messages. - Back cover.
Author : Valerie Polakow
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807775924
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)
Download or read book Who Cares for our Children? written by Valerie Polakow and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valerie Polakow spent a year traveling around the country listening to low-income women from diverse backgrounds tell their stories of struggle, resilience, distress, and occasional success as they encountered ongoing child care crises. The resulting work is both a compelling account of the lived realities of the child care crisis, and an incisive critique of public policy that points to the United States as an outlier in the international community. Drawing on historical and international perspectives, Polakow creates a groundbreaking analysis of child care as a human right, persuasively arguing for a universal child care system. “Who Cares for Our Children? is one of the most disturbing books I have read in a long time. It should have a major impact on debates over poverty and social policy.” —From the Foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed “In this beautifully written and provocative volume, Polakow deftly steps aside and lets real mothers, struggling against the odds to keep their families safe and sound, speak for themselves about what they need. This book delivers a timely message: Child care should be viewed as a human right.” —Martha F. Davis, Northeastern University School of Law “A collection of moving and often chilling personal narratives. . . . Who Cares for Our Children? is a powerful and well-documented analysis of the worlds of low-income families.” —Beth Blue Swadener, Arizona State University “Thoroughly researched and grounded in a heartfelt sympathy for the struggles of families . . . that face such painful choices and dilemmas in meeting the needs of their children.” —James Garbarino, Loyola University Chicago
Author : Peter Kline
Publisher : Inner Ocean Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)
Download or read book Why America's Children Can't Think written by Peter Kline and published by Inner Ocean Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kline argues, from experience as a teacher, researcher, and consultant in reading and accelerated learning skills, that standardized testing produces a population that can follow instructions, but it kills our greatest resource: the creative minds of our children.
Author : Tim Hollis
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604738193
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hi There, Boys and Girls! written by Tim Hollis and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-01-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Caney
Publisher : Workman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780911104806
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)
Download or read book Steven Caney's Kids' America written by Steven Caney and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces life in early American settlements by means of suggested projects including churning butter, making rope, and tracing a family tree.
