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Too Many Children Left Behind

The U.S. Achievement Gap in Comparative Perspective

By: Bruce Bradbury,Miles Corak,Jane Waldfogel,Elizabeth Washbrook

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Too Many Children Left Behind

The U.S. Achievement Gap in Comparative Perspective

By: Bruce Bradbury,Miles Corak,Jane Waldfogel,Elizabeth Washbrook

The belief that with hard work and determination, all children have the opportunity to succeed in life is a cherished part of the American Dream. Yet, increased inequality in America has made that dream more difficult for many to obtain. In Too Many Children Left Behind, an international team of social scientists assesses how social mobility varies in the United States compared with Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Bruce Bradbury, Miles Corak, Jane Waldfogel, and Elizabeth Washbrook show that the academic achievement gap between disadvantaged American children and their more advantaged peers is far greater than in other wealthy countries, with serious consequences for their future life outcomes. With education the key to expanding opportunities for those born into low socioeconomic status families, Too Many Children Left Behind helps us better understand educational disparities and how to reduce them. Analyzing data on 8,000 school children in the United States, the authors demonstrate that disadvantages that begin early in life have long lasting effects on academic performance. The social inequalities that children experience before they start school contribute to a large gap in test scores between low- and high-SES students later in life. Many children from low-SES backgrounds lack critical resources, including books, high-quality child care, and other goods and services that foster the stimulating environment necessary for cognitive development. The authors find that not only is a child’s academic success deeply tied to his or her family background, but that this class-based achievement gap does not narrow as the child proceeds through school. The authors compare test score gaps from the United States with those from three other countries and find smaller achievement gaps and greater social mobility in all three, particularly in Canada. The wider availability of public resources for disadvantaged children in those countries facilitates the early child development that is fundamental for academic success. All three countries provide stronger social services than the United States, including universal health insurance, universal preschool, paid parental leave, and other supports. The authors conclude that the United States could narrow its achievement gap by adopting public policies that expand support for children in the form of tax credits, parenting programs, and pre-K. With economic inequalities limiting the futures of millions of children, Too Many Children Left Behind is a timely study that uses global evidence to show how the United States can do more to level the playing field.

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Russell Sage Foundation

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1610448480

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The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa

By: Erik Kennes,Miles Larmer

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The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa

By: Erik Kennes,Miles Larmer

A history of the 1960s unrecognized state’s army and their role in Central Africa’s political and military conflicts. Erik Kennes and Miles Larmer provide a history of the Katangese gendarmes and their largely undocumented role in many of the most important political and military conflicts in Central Africa. Katanga, located in today’s Democratic Republic of Congo, seceded in 1960 as Congo achieved independence, and the gendarmes fought as the unrecognized state’s army during the Congo crisis. Kennes and Larmer explain how the ex-gendarmes, then exiled in Angola, struggled to maintain their national identity and return “home.” They take readers through the complex history of the Katangese and their engagement in regional conflicts and Africa’s Cold War. Kennes and Larmer show how the paths not taken at Africa’s independence persist in contemporary political and military movements and bring new understandings to the challenges that personal and collective identities pose to the relationship between African nation-states and their citizens and subjects. “A fascinating story which is tied to the colonial development of Katanga province, cold war politics in Central Africa, the crisis of the postcolonial state in the Congo, and the interregional politics in the Great Lakes area.” —Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, University of North Carolina “A major contribution to our understanding of postcolonial politics in Africa more broadly and sheds light on the survival of militias over time and forms of subnationalism emerging from regional consciousness.” —M. Crawford Young, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Indiana University Press

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0253021502

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9780253021502

Darwin's Wager

Cannibal Genes, the Human Ape, and Evolution's Final Battle

By: James B. Miles

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Darwin's Wager

Cannibal Genes, the Human Ape, and Evolution's Final Battle

By: James B. Miles

When the father of gene-centred evolutionary biology, George C. Williams, asked the world’s largest university press to publish a popular-level exposé of Darwin’s wager, he was told the idea was far too radical to put in front of the reading public. Because Darwin wagered in 1871 that humankind is born just another cannibalistic great ape, and that it falls on culture, not biology, to civilise us. Darwin’s wager explains mathematically the enormous power of culture, yet that only by acknowledging this can societies become moral and just. Though many, including the United States, may well never get there. Darwin’s wager has been buried, suppressed, for a century and a half. Darwin couldn’t get the idea out, and the giants of modern evolutionary biology couldn’t get the idea out. So on this 150th anniversary we will fight Darwin’s final battle for him.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1800461666

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Too Many Children Left Behind

The U.S. Achievement Gap in Comparative Perspective

By: Bruce Bradbury,Miles Corak,Jane Waldfogel,Elizabeth Washbrook

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The U.S. Achievement Gap in Comparative Perspective

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The Intergenerational Earnings and Income Mobility of Canadian Men [electronic Resource] : Evidence from Longitudinal Income Tax Data

By: Miles R. (Miles Raymond) Corak,Statistics Canada. Analytical Studies Branch

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The Intergenerational Earnings and Income Mobility of Canadian Men [electronic Resource] : Evidence from Longitudinal Income Tax Data

By: Miles R. (Miles Raymond) Corak,Statistics Canada. Analytical Studies Branch

Our objective is to obtain an accurate estimate of the degree of intergenerational income mobility in Canada. We use income tax information on about 400,000 father-son pairs, and find intergenerational earnings elasticities to be about 0.2. Earnings mobility tends to be slightly greater than income mobility, but non-parametric techniques uncover significant non-linearities in both of these relationships. Intergenerational earnings mobility is greater at the lower end of the income distribution than at the upper end, and displays an inverted V-shape elsewhere. Intergenerational income mobility follows roughly the same pattern, but is much lower at the very top of the income distribution.

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Too Many Children Left Behind

Too Many Children Left Behind

The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa

The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa

Darwin's Wager

Darwin's Wager

Too Many Children Left Behind

Too Many Children Left Behind

The Intergenerational Earnings and Income Mobility of Canadian Men [electronic Resource] : Evidence from Longitudinal Income Tax Data

The Intergenerational Earnings and Income Mobility of Canadian Men [electronic Resource] : Evidence from Longitudinal Income Tax Data

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