Current Events : Poverty

There continues to be a recognized need for cooperation among the major agencies involved in children’s welfare today. While retaining their individual autonomy and authority, agencies need to work together effectively for the well-being of children. Principles of Child Protection examines the topical and growing field of child protection practice. The author reviews the literature on social and cultural definitions and patterns of child abuse, child sexual abuse, and the nature of childhood itself, and examines the forces that have helped to determine current multiagency child protection management. This book is suitable for students on qualifying and post-qualifying courses in social work, social policy and child protection, as well as practitioners and policy makers. more...

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Adequacy lawsuits have, with little fanfare, emerged as a major alternative strategy in the pursuit of improved public education in the United States. Plaintiffs allege insufficient resources to provide students with the quality of education promised in their state's constitution, hoping the courts will step in and order the state to increase funding levels. Since 1985, more than thirty states have faced such suits. How pervasive--and effective--is this trend? What are its ramifications, in local school districts and on a broader scale? This important new book addresses those questions. In School Money Trials, thoughtful contributors consider this growing phenomenon from several different viewpoints. For example, they investigate the legal theory behind adequacy lawsuits, examining how courts have interpreted the education clauses in state constitutions. Education policy analyst Frederick Hess looks at the politics of implementing adequacy judgments. Research by Christopher Berry finds that the adequacy movement has not yet resulted in broad changes in school funding. Andrew Rudalevige and Michael Heise address how the No Child Left Behind Act and adequacy lawsuits affect one another. And according to authors Matthew Springer and James Guthrie, adequacy litigation has more fully politicized the process of cost modeling in school finance. This is the most comprehensive analysis to date of the adequacy lawsuit, a topic of increasing importance in a controversial area of public policy that touches virtually all Americans. It will be of interest to readers engaged in education policy debates and those concerned about the power of the courts to make policy rather than simply to enforce it. more...

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Based on qualitative research with young people aged from 18 to 30 in five European countries, this book examines young peoples pathways to adulthood, and their perspectives on their future work and family lives. more...

Price: $170.00