The Price of Poor Education
The high cost of education steadily draws headlines, as parents struggle to finance their children's college education and towns grapple with ever-increasing school budgets. In all the turmoil, the cost of not educating America's children goes largely ignored.
Now the Brookings Institute has come out with a new book: The Price We Pay: Economic and Social Consequences of Inadequate Education. It highlights the enormous costs--private, fiscal, and public--of not providing an adequate education for all our children.
The book contains articles by scholars from a wide range of fields-including economics, education, demography, and public health. They show the data on the relationship between educational attainment and income, health, crime, and dependence on public assistance.
They also explore policy interventions that could boost the education system's performance. They explain why the challenge of educating our youth is particularly urgent today. As they stress, improving educational outcomes for at-risk youth is more than a noble goal. It is an investment, one with the potential to yield benefits that far outstrip its costs. The Price We Pay analyzes both sides of the balance sheet and suggests which policies are most likely to pay off.
If you would like to get the book --at a 20% discount, you can go to http://www.cbcse.org/media/download_gallery/price%20we%20pay.pdf
