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From Family Collapse to America's Decline
The Educational, Economic, and Social Costs of Family Fragmentation
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2011
Summary
Very high rates of family fragmentation in the United States are subtracting from what very large numbers of students are learning in school and forever holding them back in many other ways. This in turn is damaging the country economically by making us less primed for innovation while also making millions of Americans less competitive in an increasingly demanding worldwide marketplace. All of which is leading – and can only lead – to deepening class divisions in a nation which has never viewed itself or operated in such splintered ways. What can be done to reverse these severely destructive trends, starting with reducing the enormous number of children forced to grow up with only one parent living under the same roof? What educational reforms are most likely to help under such demanding circumstances? And as dangerous as the situation is, why do leaders in education and other fields persist, for both understandable and less-worthy reasons, in dancing around profoundly important questions of family breakdown to the point of contortion and ultimately failure?
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-1-60709-361-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-60709-363-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
166
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 01. From Moynihan to“My Goodness” No access Pages 1 - 28
Chapter 02. Fragmentation’s Effects on “Every Conceivable Measure” No access Pages 29 - 46
Chapter 03. Fragmentation’s Effects on Educational Performance No access Pages 47 - 68
Chapter 04. Fragmentation’s Effects on Economic Performance No access Pages 69 - 90
Chapter 05. Strengthening Learning No access Pages 91 - 120
Chapter 06. Strengthening Marriage No access Pages 121 - 148
