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Velis, Jean-Pierre – 1995
For many African children today, the grim realities of everyday life are far removed from models of education based on traditional wisdom. Part of an attempt to draw the attention of a wide public to the situation of street children, this book focuses on the educational aspects of a problem from which no country is spared. The book focuses…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Children, Educationally Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries
Blank, Rebecca M. – 1997
This book examines the condition of America's poor and the policies used to help them, demonstrating that government aid has been far more effective in reducing poverty than most people think. One of the primary points of the book is that poverty is not synonymous with single mothers and their children on welfare; in fact, the majority of the poor…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Births to Single Women, Crime, Early Parenthood
