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- Title
Early Interventions to Reduce Intergenerational Disadvantage: The New Policy Context.
- Authors
Schorr, Lisbeth B.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the need of improvement in investment in child education in the U.S. Investment in improved services to young children, especially poor children, is increasingly recognized as essential to the welfare of every American. Connections have been documented between early interventions and later outcomes such as the incidence of welfare dependence, crime, school-age pregnancy, and school dropout. A public concerned about the high numbers of young people leaving school without the skills and motivation to work, about weakening productivity, losses in international competitiveness, growing costs of prisons and welfare, and the prospect of a permanent American underclass is becoming ever more receptive to evidence that effective early interventions have long-term payoffs. Economic, technological, and demographic trends that have resulted in more mothers working, fewer young people available for entry-level jobs, and a rise in the level of skill needed for employment have added to the general sense that current policies that govern the nation's investment in human capital and impact on the care and education of young children are a poor fit with current needs.
- Subjects
UNITED States; EDUCATIONAL finance; CHILD care; SCHOOL dropouts; COST effectiveness
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 1989, Vol 90, Issue 3, p362
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/016146818909000306