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Children at risk in America : history, concepts, and public policy / Roberta Wollons, editor.

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Children at risk in America : history, concepts, and public policy / Roberta Wollons, editor.
Publication
Albany : State University of New York Press, c1993.

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Additional Authors
Wollons, Roberta Lyn, 1947-
Description
xxv, 310 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
SUNY series, youth social services, schooling, and public policy
Uniform Title
SUNY series, youth social services, schooling, and public policy.
Subject
  • USA Congress
  • Child welfare > United States
  • Children > Government policy > United States
  • Public schools > United States
  • Child Welfare > history
  • Public Policy > history
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Child saving in modern America 1870s-1990s / Hamilton Cravens -- Status offenders, criminal offenders, and children "at risk" in early twentieth-century juvenile court / Steven Schlossman and Susan Turner -- Structuring risks : the making of urban school order / Joseph L. Tropea -- Making controversy : who's "at risk?" / Michelle Fine -- Children's legal rights? : a historical look at a legal paradox / Michael Grossberg -- Inventing the problem child : "at risk" children in the child guidance movement of the 1920s and 1930s / Margo Horn -- Children at risk : students in special education / Alan Gartner and Dorothy Kerzner Lipsky -- Language and ethnicity as factors in school failure : the case of Mexican-Americans / Patricia Gandara -- Adolescent pregnancy and child support / P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale and Maris A. Vinovskis.
  • Reversing the poverty cycle with job-based education / Robert I. Lerman -- Public policy and child care : the question of quality / Judith D. Auerbach -- Public policy and child protection / James Garbarino and Kathleen Kostelny.
ISBN
  • 0791411974
  • 0791411982 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^91038871^
OCLC
  • 24671292
  • SCSB-10153874
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library