The Urban Underclass

Author: Christopher Jencks
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 04/01/1991
Pages: 508
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.61lbs
Size: 9.12h x 5.94w x 1.21d
ISBN: 9780815746058
About the Author
 Christopher Jencks  is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, the author of The Homeless (Harvard, 1994) and Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass (Harperperennial, 1993), and the coeditor of The Urban Underclass (Brookings, 1991). Paul E. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard, the director of PEPG, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is author or editor of numerous books, including The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools, with William G. Howell (Brookings, 2004 and 2006). He is coeditor (with Martin West) of No Child Left Behind? The Practice and Politics of School Accountability (Brookings, 2003).