Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- The Education Attainment Gap: Who's Affected, How Much, and Why It Matters -- Part One: Assessing the Scope of the Challenge -- Beyond Educational Attainment: A Multifaceted Approach to Examining Economic Inequalities -- Diversity and the Demographic Dividend: Achieving Educational Equity in an Aging White Society -- Implications of Educational Inequality in a Global Economy -- Part Two: Quantifying the Costs of Inadequate Education -- Consequences for the Labor Market -- Consequences in Health Status and Costs -- Crime and the Costs of Criminal Justice -- Welfare and the Costs of Public Assistance -- Part Three: Directions for Reform -- Educational Interventions to Raise High School Graduation Rates -- The Promise of Early Childhood Education Interventions -- Toward Excellence with Equity: The Role of Parenting and Transformative School Reform -- The Need for Comprehensive Educational Equity -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.

While the high cost of education draws headlines, the cost of not educating America's children goes largely ignored. The Price We Pay remedies this oversight by highlighting the private and public costs of inadequate education. In this volume, 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 such critical indicators as income, health, crime, dependence on public assistance, and political participation. They 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 goal. It is an investment with the potential to yield benefits that far outstrip its costs. The Price We Pay provides the tools readers need to analyze both sides of the balance sheet and make informed decisions about which policies will pay off. Contributors include Thomas Bailey (Teachers College, Columbia University), Ronald F. Ferguson (Harvard University), Irwin Garfinkel (Columbia University), Jane Junn (Rutgers University), Brendan Kelly (Columbia University), Enrico Moretti (UCLA), Peter Muennig (Columbia University), Michael Rebell (Teachers College, Columbia University), Richard Rothstein (Teachers College, Columbia University), Cecilia E. Rouse (Princeton University), Marta Tienda (Princeton University), Jane Waldfogel (Columbia University), and Tamara Wilder (Teachers College, Columbia University).

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