{"product_id":"an-educational-war-on-poverty-american-and-british-policy-making-1960-1980-hardback-9780521381499","title":"An Educational War on Poverty; American and British Policy-making 1960–1980 (Hardback) 9780521381499","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAn Educational War on Poverty\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAmerican and British Policy-making 1960–1980\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn Educational War on Poverty represents a major contribution to the study of the recent social and educational history of Britain and the United States.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHarold Silver (Author), Pamela Silver (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521381499, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 September 1991\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e460 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 3 cm, 0.792 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The book is in the finest tradition of comparative public policy research.  It also serves as a reminder, to those of us who tend to concentrate on single-nation studies, how valuable such comparative studies can be....the volume is an extremely valuable resource that readers will return to on numerous occasions.\"   John F. Witte, American Political Science Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book analyses the parallel, different and related aspects of the discovery of poverty in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the role of education in the American 'war on poverty' from 1964, and in Britain from the appointment of the Plowden committee on primary schools. It examines changes in policy emphases, the relationship between research and policy, and the transatlantic interactions and silences involved. Based on archival and interview material the book offers new insights into the role of the Plowden committee in shifting attention from social class to poverty, and it discusses in both the American and British contexts the concepts and theories involved in the changing fortunes of the educational war on poverty in the 1960s and 1970s. An Educational War on Poverty represents a major contribution to the study of the recent social and educational history of Britain and the United States, and the range and depth of research, will make it an essential reference source for scholars and policy-makers on both sides of the Atlantic.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction: a proper complexity\u003cbr\u003e Part I. A Pattern Of Events: United States: 2. Poverty and education: changing concerns and concepts\u003cbr\u003e 3. Education: children and intervention\u003cbr\u003e 4. Learning their way out of poverty?\u003cbr\u003e 5. Education and the prime target\u003cbr\u003e 6. An effort to understand\u003cbr\u003e Part II. A Pattern Of Events: Britain: 7. Advancing from poverty?\u003cbr\u003e 8. Opportunity, equality and social class\u003cbr\u003e 9. Sounds and silences\u003cbr\u003e 10. Plowden: direction finding\u003cbr\u003e 11. Plowden: making choices\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Following Through: 12. United States: planned and unplanned variation\u003cbr\u003e 13. Britain: units of concern\u003cbr\u003e 14. Directions\u003cbr\u003e Interviews and consultation\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20history%20%5BHBTB%5D%22\"\u003eHBTB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007161946392,"sku":"9780521381499","price":96.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521381499i_47992af4-aa63-40bd-a52e-dad5f5eb160e.jpg?v=1691376108","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/an-educational-war-on-poverty-american-and-british-policy-making-1960-1980-hardback-9780521381499","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}