The Unacknowledged Disaster concerns two huge and closely-tied but widely ignored problems that plague the U.S. On the one hand, America tolerates a massive amount of youth poverty, while on the other, youth poverty is the major social factor generating failure in the country's education. (More than one-fifth of American youths are now impoverished-a poverty rate far worse than those for American adults or the elderly and more than twice the size of youth poverty rates in other advanced nations-and poverty generates most educational failure effects in the U.S. often assigned to such factors...

The Unacknowledged Disaster concerns two huge and closely-tied but widely ignored problems that plague the U.S. On the one hand, America tolerates a massive amount of youth poverty, while on the other, youth poverty is the major social factor generating failure in the country's education. (More than one-fifth of American youths are now impoverished-a poverty rate far worse than those for American adults or the elderly and more than twice the size of youth poverty rates in other advanced nations-and poverty generates most educational failure effects in the U.S. often assigned to such factors...