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Mercy Mercy Me: Social Injustice and the Prevention of Environmental Pollutant Exposures among Ethnic Minority and Poor Children
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Dilworth-Bart, Janean E.; Moore, Colleen F. – Child Development, 2006
Children's lead and pesticide exposures are used as examples to examine social disparities in exposure reduction efforts as well as environmental policies impacting children in poverty and minority children. The review also presents an estimate of the effect of social disparities in lead exposure on standardized test performance. Because including…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Standardized Tests, Poverty, Longitudinal Studies