Harvard's John Ratey (Ratey & Hagerman, 2008) notes that even moderate exercise can sharpen memory and improve cognitive function and highlights a school district study showing how the students getting the most fitness also ended up ...
This book examines why such normative discourses of childhood are in need of radical revision and explores how development research and practice can work to ‘unsettle’ the global child.
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This book is fundamental for faculty, researchers, school practitioners, and students across the field of education. It is accessible to all readers.
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A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty reviews the research on linkages between child poverty and child well-being, and analyzes the poverty-reducing effects of major assistance programs directed at children and families.
The team is associated with the Academic Development Institute and their collaboration was supported by the National Comprehensive Center. This book is unique and distinct from others in several ways.
This volume combines and updates these three reports into a single reference volume.
In this book, editors Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger and leading poverty researchers assess why the War on Poverty was not won and analyze the most promising strategies to reduce poverty in the twenty-first century economy.