Robert B Halpern

Poverty and Malnutrition in Latin America: Early Childhood Intervention Programs a Report to the Ford Foundation

Rebuilding the Inner City: A History of Neighborhood Initiatives to Address Poverty in the United States

Rebuilding the Inner City: A History of Neighborhood Initiatives to Address Poverty in the United States

Fragile Families, Fragile Solutions: A History of Supportive Services for Families in Poverty

Poverty and Malnutrition in Latin America: Early Childhood Intervention Programs

Fair Start for Children: Lessons Learned from Seven Demonstration Projects

Making Play Work: The Promise of After-School Programs for Low-Income Children

Making Play Work: The Promise of After-School Programs for Low-Income Children

Critical Issues in After-School Programming (Monographs of the Herr Research Center for Children and Social Policy, Erikson Institute, Serial No. 1, Volume 1 2006)

How well can after-school programs support literacy development among low-income children? How can we transform a patchwork of independent programs of varying quality into an efficient and effective system-and do we want to? Do the expectations we place on after-school programs today conform to what...

The Means to Grow Up: Reinventing Apprenticeship as a Developmental Support in Adolescence (Critical Youth Studies)

In The Means to Grow Up, Robert Halpern describes the pedagogical importance of "apprenticeship"—a growing movement based in schools, youth-serving organizations, and arts, civic, and other cultural institutions. This movement aims to re-engage youth through in-depth learning and unique experiences ...

Fragile Families, Fragile Solutions

How has America's social welfare network benefited families living in poverty? In what ways has it failed to provide for their needs? The system of social welfare in the United States has been in place for most of this century-and although it has had lasting impact on the lives of many people in nee...

Youth, Education, and the Role of Society: Rethinking Learning in the High School Years

Youth, Education, and the Role of Society examines the "learning landscape" currently available to American adolescents, arguing that we need to expand, enrich, and diversify the learning opportunities available to young people today.Central to the book is Robert Halpern's view that we depend too ex...

Making Play Work: The Promise of After-School Programs for Low-Income Children

After-school programmes are becoming an important development support for low- and moderate-income children. This book describes the historical development, current status and critical issues facing these programmes.

Green Planet Rescue: Saving the Earth's Endangered Plants (A Cincinnati Zoo Book)

Discusses the importance of plants and what can be done to protect some kinds of plants that face extinction.

Rebuilding the Inner City

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