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The Unacknowledged Disaster

Youth Poverty and Educational Failure in America

By: Bruce J. Biddle

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The Unacknowledged Disaster

Youth Poverty and Educational Failure in America

By: Bruce J. Biddle

The Unacknowledged Disaster concerns two huge and closely-tied but widely ignored problems that plague the U.S. On the one hand, America tolerates a massive amount of youth poverty, while on the other, youth poverty is the major social factor generating failure in the country’s education. (More than one-fifth of American youths are now impoverished–a poverty rate far worse than those for American adults or the elderly and more than twice the size of youth poverty rates in other advanced nations–and poverty generates most educational failure effects in the U.S. often assigned to such factors as student race, broken homes, and the supposed failures of teachers and school administrators.) These problems have been studied extensively, and the tragedies they create are well known to scholars, but they are often misrepresented, misunderstood, or unacknowledged by far-right advocates, media figures, policy makers, and those concerned with serious problems that now beset the United States. This book reviews evidence concerning these problems and their dire effects, discusses ineffective or tragic outcomes that result when these problems are ignored, assesses why these problems are so often unacknowledged in the United States, and sets forth clear, evidence-based policies that can reduce the disastrous scope of American youth poverty and its destructive effects in education.

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325

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Springer

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9462095213

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9789462095212

Role Theory

Expectations, Identities, and Behaviors

By: Bruce J. Biddle

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Role Theory

Expectations, Identities, and Behaviors

By: Bruce J. Biddle

Role Theory: Expectations, Identities, and Behaviors presents the applications of role concepts for education, social work, and clinical practice. This book examines the advantages as well as the shortcomings of the role stance. Organized into nine chapters, this book begins with an overview of behaviors that are characteristics of persons within contexts and the various processes that are employed to explain and predict those behaviors. This text then examines the concepts of the role field and discovers their applications to social problems of pressing concern. Other chapters consider the empirical evidence that has been developed within the role orientation concerning social problems. This book discusses as well the behavioral comparability, behavior linkage, behavioral effects, and complex linking concepts for behaviors. The final chapter discusses how contexts may affect the behaviors of persons and how those behaviors may have subsequent functions. This book is a valuable resource for anthropologists, sociologists, and social psychologists.

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429

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Academic Press

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1483288137

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9781483288130

Social Class, Poverty and Education

By: Bruce Biddle

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Social Class, Poverty and Education

By: Bruce Biddle

Equal access to education is an important American ideal, yet for many years it has been unavailable to a large number of Americans living in impoverished communities. Biddle gives an insightful progress report on today's educational system.

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264

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Routledge

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1135301409

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9781135301408

The Manufactured Crisis

Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public Schools

By: David C. Berliner,Bruce Jesse Biddle

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The Manufactured Crisis

Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public Schools

By: David C. Berliner,Bruce Jesse Biddle

Over the past decade a rising chorus of critics - from William Bennett to Allan Bloom - has decried the supposedly dire state of our public schools. Kids aren't learning what they should, violence and chaos reign in the classroom, and bureaucracy strangles attempts at reform. But how much of that grim image is really true? In The Manufactured Crisis, two prominent scholars, prize-winning educational psychologist David C. Berliner and leading social psychologist Bruce J. Biddle, fight back with the good news. They debunk a whole series of familiar but untrue statistics about public schools - that SAT scores have been dropping, when for many groups they are in fact rising; that illiteracy is up, when in fact the numbers have been skewed because schools are now educating the traditionally disenfranchised in ever larger numbers; that investments in public education do not pay off when, in fact, they lead to greater student achievements and life earnings; that private schools are inherently better than public schools when, in fact, the evidence does not support this charge. Berliner and Biddle tear through these and other sensational myths to give the reader an honest look at public education in America and the misguided, often tragic proposals that critics have urged for correcting these fictive problems. In addition, they expose and offer solutions to the real problems American public schools face today, schools that continue to provide an increasingly diverse citizenry with the opportunity to better their lives.

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436

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Longman Publishing Group

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0801314860

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9780801314865

The Untested Accusation

Principals, Research Knowledge, and Policy Making in Schools

By: Bruce Jesse Biddle,Lawrence J. Saha

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The Untested Accusation

Principals, Research Knowledge, and Policy Making in Schools

By: Bruce Jesse Biddle,Lawrence J. Saha

Here, the authors address questions about the utilization of knowledge from social research and offer evidence that challenges allegations about the 'awful reputation' of educational research and its supposed lack of impact.

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324

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R&L Education

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1578861934

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9781578861934

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The Unacknowledged Disaster

The Unacknowledged Disaster

Role Theory

Role Theory

Social Class, Poverty and Education

Social Class, Poverty and Education

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The Manufactured Crisis

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