An Educational War on Poverty : American and British Policy-making 1960–1980 (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: a proper complexity; Part I. A Pattern Of Events: United States: 2. Poverty and education: changing concerns and concepts; 3. Education: children and intervention; 4. Learning their way out of poverty?; 5. Education and the prime target; 6. An effort to understand; Part II. A Pattern Of Events: Britain: 7. Advancing from poverty?; 8. Opportunity, equality and social class; 9. Sounds and silences; 10. Plowden: direction finding; 11. Plowden: making choices; Part III. Following Through: 12. United States: planned and unplanned variation; 13. Britain: units of concern; 14. Directions; Interviews and consultation; Bibliography; Index.