<p>Public policy attempts to break the stranglehold of multigenerational poverty have largely failed. Partisan efforts to build personal, family, and community resources and a strong middle class haven't worked either. One successful approach, based on the Bridges Out of Poverty methodology, focuses
Education policy and practice : bridging the divide
- Publisher
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard Educational Review
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
311 pages ; 26 cm
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