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Acknowledgments vii
1 The Education Attainment Gap: Who's Affected, How Much, and Why It Matters 1
Clive R. Belfield and Henry M Levin
PART ONE
Assessing the Scope of the Challenge
2 Beyond Educational Attainment: A Multifaceted Approach to Examining Economic Inequalities 21
Richard Rothstein and Tamara Wilder
3 Diversity and the Demographic Dividend:
Achieving Educational Equity in an Aging White Society 48
Marta Tienda and Sigal Alon
4 Implications of Educational Inequality in a Global Economy 74
Thomas Bailey
PART TWO
QuantifYing the Costs of Inadequate Education
5 Consequences for the Labor Market
Cecilia Elena Rouse
6 Consequences in Health Status and Costs 99
Peter Muennig
7 Crime and the Costs of Criminal Justice 125
Enrico Moretti
8 Welfare and the Costs of Public Assistance 142
Jane Waldfogel, Irwin Garfinkel, and Brendan Kelly
PART THREE
Directions for Reform
9 Educational Interventions to Raise High School Graduation Rates 177
Henry M Levin and Clive R. Belfield
10 The Promise of Early Childhood Education Interventions 200
Clive R. Belfield
11 Toward Excellence with Equity: The Role of Parenting and Transformative School Reform 225
Ronald F Ferguson
12 The Need for Comprehensive Educational Equity 255
Michael A. Rebell
Contributors 265
Index 267