John H Tyler,Magnus Lofstrom
John H Tyler
John Tyler and Magnus Lofstrom take a close look at the problems posed when students do not complete high school. The authors begin by discussing the ongoing, sometimes heated, debate over how prevalent the dropout problem is. They note tha...
Falling off track during the transition to high school: what we know and what can be done [0.03%]
初中过渡期间辍学问题：我们所了解的情况及可以采取的措施
Ruth Curran Neild
Ruth Curran Neild
Ninth grade, observes Ruth Curran Neild, marks a critical juncture in American schooling. Students who manage the academic demands of the transition to high school have a high probability of graduating four years later. But those who do not...
How do american students measure up? Making sense of international comparisons [0.03%]
美国学生国际评估表现如何？如何解读国际比较结果？
Daniel Koretz
Daniel Koretz
In response to frequent news media reports about how poorly American students fare compared with their peers abroad, Daniel Koretz takes a close look at what these comparisons say, and do not say, about the achievement of U.S. high school s...
Robert Balfanz
Robert Balfanz
As the twenty-first century opens, says Robert Balfanz, the United States is developing a deep social consensus that American high schools should ensure that all adolescents graduate from high school prepared for postsecondary schooling and...
Philip A Cowan,Carolyn Pape Cowan,Virginia Knox
Philip A Cowan
To improve the quality and stability of couple and father-child relationships in fragile families, researchers are beginning to consider how to tailor existing couple-relationship and father-involvement interventions, which are now targeted...
Unmarried parents in college [0.03%]
大学里的单身父母
Sara Goldrick-Rab,Kia Sorensen
Sara Goldrick-Rab
Noting that access to higher education has expanded dramatically in the past several decades, Sara Goldrick-Rab and Kia Sorensen focus on how unmarried parents fare once they enter college. Contrary to the expectation that access to college...
Christopher Wildeman,Bruce Western
Christopher Wildeman
Since the mid-1970s the U.S. imprisonment rate has increased roughly fivefold. As Christopher Wildeman and Bruce Western explain, the effects of this sea change in the imprisonment rate--commonly called mass imprisonment or the prison boom-...
An ounce of prevention: policy prescriptions to reduce the prevalence of fragile families [0.03%]
防患于未然：降低问题家庭发生率的政策建议
Isabel Sawhill,Adam Thomas,Emily Monea
Isabel Sawhill
Isabel Sawhill, Adam Thomas, and Emily Monea believe that given the well-documented costs of nonmarital births to the children and parents in fragile families, as well as to society as a whole, policy makers' primary goal should be to reduc...
Robert A Hummer,Erin R Hamilton
Robert A Hummer
Robert Hummer and Erin Hamilton note that the prevalence of fragile families varies substantially by race and ethnicity. African Americans and Hispanics have the highest prevalence; Asian Americans, the lowest; and whites fall somewhere in ...
Comparative Study
The Future of children. 2010 Fall;20(2):113-31. DOI:10.1353/foc.2010.0003 2010
Jane Waldfogel,Terry-Ann Craigie,Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Jane Waldfogel
Jane Waldfogel, Terry-Ann Craigie, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn review recent studies that use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) to examine why children who grow up in single-mother and cohabiting families fare wors...