Mitch Pearlstein: 3 books
Broken Bonds
What Family Fragmentation Means for America’s Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
The United States has the highest family fragmentation rates in the industrial world. Nonmarital birth rates for the nation as a whole are 40%, with proportions dramatically higher in many communities as defined by race, ethnicity, or geography. Divorce rates, while moderating in recent decades, are...
From Family Collapse to America's Decline
The Educational, Economic, and Social Costs of Family Fragmentation
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Very high rates of family fragmentation in the United States are subtracting from what very large numbers of students are learning in school and forever holding them back in many other ways. This in turn is damaging the country economically by making us less primed for innovation while also making...
Education Roads Less Traveled
Solving America's Fixation on Four-Year Degrees
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Every year, large numbers of American young people who are not terribly interested in attending a four-year college reluctantly enroll anyway, effectively pressured by combinations of parents, peers, teachers, guidance counselors, and the normative air they breathe. More than occasionally, they wind...