Common Purpose Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods to Rebuild America

Name: Common Purpose Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods to Rebuild America
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ISBN: 9780385475334

ISBN-10: 0385475330

ISBN-13: 9780385475334

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Authors: Lisbeth Schorr

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In her previous book, Within Our Reach, renowned Harvard social analyst Lisbeth Schorr examined pilot social programs that were successful in helping disadvantaged youth and families. But as those cutting-edge programs were expanded, the very qualities that had made them initially successful were jettisoned, and less than half of them ultimately survived. As a result, these groundbreaking programs never made a dent on the national or statewide level. Lisbeth Schorr has spent the past seven years researching and identifying large-scale programs across the country that are promising to reduce, on a community- or citywide level, child abuse, school failure, teenage pregnancy, and welfare…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/13/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 5.21" wide x 7.95" long x 1.09" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Foreword


Introduction


Spreading and Sustaining Success


What Works and Why We Have So Little of It


Spreading What Works Beyond the Hothouse


Taming Bureaucracies to Support What Works


A New Focus on Results


Finding Out What Works


Reforming Systems


Beyond Welfare Repeal: Real Welfare Reform


Strengthening a Collapsing Child Protection System


Educating America's Children


Rebuilding Communities


Synergy: Putting It All Together to Transform Neighborhoods


Epilogue: We Can Achieve Our Common Purpose


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index