The Price We Pay

Author: Clive Belfield
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0815708637

The Price We Pay: Economic and Social Consequences of Inadequate Education

While the high cost of education draws headlines, the cost of not educating America's children goes largely ignored. Download The Price We Pay: Economic and Social Consequences of Inadequate Education from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. The Price We Pay remedies this oversight by highlighting the private, fiscal, and public costs of inadequate education. Leading scholars from a broad range of fields-including economics, education, demography, and public health-attach hard numbers to the relationship between educational attainment and income, health, crime, and dependence on public assistance. They also explore policy interventions that could boost the education system's performance and explain why demographic trends make the challenge of educating our youth so urgent today. Improving educational outcomes for at-risk youth is more than a noble goa Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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