Big ideas for children
Subtitle: investing in our nation's future
Publisher: First Focus
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, DC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Services for; Health and hygiene; Child care; Poor children; Children
Notes: First Focus is a bipartisan advocacy organization that is committed to making children and their families a priority in federal policy and budget decisions.

Also available via the World Wide Web. Address as of 11/25/2008: http://www.firstfocus.net/Download/BigIdeas.pdf.

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Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Bruce Lesley; title: Place, race and health: promoting opportunities for good health for all children / Brian D. Smedley; title: The kids : first agenda / David L. Kirp; title: Out of the desert : an integrated approach to ending child poverty / Elisabeth Mason and Julie Kashen - Paying for investments in children / Isabel V. Sawhill; title: The case for investing in disadvantaged young children / James J. Heckman; title: Achieving a high return on early childhood investment : scholarships for early childhood development / Arthur J. Rolnick and Rob Grunewald; title: Evolving No Child Left Behind / Linda Darling-Hammond; title: Lessons for the United States from other advanced economies in tackling child poverty / Kate Bell, Jared Bernstein and Mark Greenberg; title: A springboard to the ownership society / Katie McMinn Campbell and Jason D. Newman; title: Supporting young children and families : an investment strategy that pays / Julia B. Isaacs; title: 2020 Vision for America's children / William C. Bell; title: A new way of thinking about child abuse and neglect prevention / James M. Hmurovich; title: Cutting the Gordian Knot : national reforms to assure coverage of developmental child health treatment / Sara Rosenbaum; title: How policymakers can use automation to help families and children / Stan Dorn; title: Helping parents raise healthy, happy productive children / Nemours Health and Prevention Services and The California Endowment; title: Children in immigrant families : key to America's future / Donald J. Hernandez; title: Making work pay : again / Ron Haskins; title: A big, new investment in America's poorest (and youngest?) children : conditional cash transfers / J. Lawrence Aber; title: Protecting children from firearm violence / David Hemenway; title: Investing in middle class families : the case for a much expanded child tax credit / James C. Capretta; title: Evidence-based programs and policies for children and youth / Kristin Anderson Moore and Carol Emig; title: Communicating about children / Luntz, Maslansky Strategic Research.