CONTENTS
Foreword by Congressman George Miller ix
Introduction
Kathleen McCartney, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, and Laurie B. Forcier 1
Prenatal and Infant health and Development
1 Health Care for Children: Forty Years of Health Policy 13
Sara Rosenbaum and Partow Zomorrodian
2 A Healthy Start Before and After Birth: Applying the Biology of Adversity to Build the Capabilities of Caregivers 28
Jack P. Shonkoff
Early Childhood Care and Education
3 A Great Beginning: Ensuring Early Opportunities forAmerica’s Young Children 43
Joan Lombardi
4 A Future for Preschool in the United States: Integrating Innovations from Global Perspectives 58
Hirokazu Yoshikawa and Kathleen McCartney
School Reform
5 The Past as Prologue to the Future: Envisioning School Reform for the Twenty-First Century 73
Deborah Jewell-Sherman
6 Building a Twenty-First-Century School System: Creating a Teaching Profession and Multiple Student Pathways 84
Jal Mehta and Robert B. Schwartz
The Achievement Gap
7 Confronting the Achievement Gap: A District-Level Perspective 101
Jerry D. Weast
8 Rising Inequality and the School Performance of Low- and High-Income Children 121
Greg J. Duncan and Richard J. Murnane
Vulnerable Children
9 Beyond Child Protection: Helping All Families Provide Adequate Parenting 135
Michael S. Wald
10 Child Protection and Child Welfare: Meeting the Needs of Vulnerable Children 148
Jane Waldfogel
Juvenile Justice
11 The Wheel Turns: Recreating a System of Justice for Juveniles 161
Robert G. Schwartz
12 Using Scientific Research to Transform Juvenile Justice Policy and Practice: A Modest Success Story and Some Suggestions for the Next Four Decades 174
Laurence Steinberg
Child Poverty
13 Policies to Reduce Poverty: Supporting Family Income as an Investment in Children’s Futures 189
Arloc Sherman, Robert Greenstein, and Sharon Parrott
14 The State of Research on Children and Families in Poverty: Past, Present, and Future Empirical Avenues of Promise 203
Eric Dearing
Afterword by Marian Wright Edelman 217
Notes 221
Acknowledgments 255
About the Editors 257
About the Contributors 259
Index 265
