Human Capital Theory
Increasing the wealth of the community by improving the quality of workers through investment in education is known as this.
Human Capital
These three subjects are emphasized in education for the global knowledge economy.
Math, Science, and Literacy
Instead of an intelligence or achievement test, the Perry Preschool study participants took a test of functional competence that focused on these two aspects of the real world.
Information and Skills
In relation to income, this provides a person with knowledge and attitudes.
Education
This program from the 1960s War on Poverty resulted in the preschool program.
Head Start
This along with communication is a new form linked to the global knowledge economy.
Networking
This is crucial for success in both the labor market and in schooling.
Non-cognitive Abilities
Learned at home, this factor contributes to social capital.
Behaviors
The economic model of the War on Poverty has many interrelated points. This is one of the model’s elements.
Low-Income Job, Low-Quality Housing, Poor Diet, Poor Medical Care, Health Problems; Absent from School and Work, Low-Quality Education
Education and the global economy were the themes during this President’s term.
Bill Clinton
The Perry Preschool study began with this racial group of children.
African American
Parents reasoning with their children, is this class of family’s child-rearing method for speech.
Middle-Class Family
Since this century, politicians and school leaders justified schools as necessary for economic development.
19th Century
A Nation at Risk blamed American public school’s allegedly poor academic quality for causing lower rates of economic productivity than these two countries.
Japan and West Germany
This Nobel economist recommended investing into preschool education to reduce poverty.
James J. Heckman
In this class of family, children “hang out” with siblings, friends, and relatives while parents involve them in a minimum of organized activities.
Working-Class Family
The current concept of the knowledge economy and human capital can be traced to the work of these two economists.
Theodore Shultz and Gary Becker
In this work, Reich draws a relationship between education and placement of labor.
The work of Nations
This office reported that Perry Preschool graduates had significantly lower crime, delinquency, teenage pregnancy, and welfare dependency rates than the no-preschool group.
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Anette Lareau wrote about how variations in social and cultural capital affect the ability of children to learn in school and to gain future employment in this book.
Unequal Childhoods