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Cashing in on Education

Author : Mercedes Mateo Díaz
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464809038
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Cashing in on Education written by Mercedes Mateo Díaz and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investments in education across countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have transformed the lives of millions of girls and the prospects of their families and societies. Unleashing the full economic potential of women is nevertheless still a curtailed issue in the region: just about half of women are unable to participate in paid work. The majority of the population out of the labor market is women between the ages of 24 and 45. This is the largest share of the available pool of unused human capital countries have, and where mothers of young children are concentrated. This book argues that more and better childcare constitutes a fundamental policy option to improve female outcomes in the labor market, but countries need to pay particular attention to the design and features of such services. First-rate educational programs will be useless if children are not enrolled or do not attend formal education centers. A large program expansion will be wasted if parents cannot enroll their children because they are unable to reach the center, don’t trust its quality, if the program is too expensive, or if work and care schedules are not compatible. Through an integrated framework applied to each country and an overview of the existing evidence, this book addresses the why and what questions about policy relevant instruments to achieve female labor participation. Parts I and II of the book lay out the motivation for Latin-American and Caribbean countries to act depicting their current situation both in terms of women’s labor participation and the use and provision of childcare services. Moreover, this book tackles the how question contributing to the incipient evidence about factors affecting the take-up of programs and demand for childcare services and other informal care arrangements. Part III of the book explores how to improve services and implement more and better formal, center-based care arrangements for young children. It looks at international benchmarks, discusses different experiences and proposes specific actions to solve potential inequalities in access to childcare.

Unequal Family Lives

Author : Naomi R. Cahn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108415954
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Unequal Family Lives written by Naomi R. Cahn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the causes and consequences of family inequality in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.

Children of Cain

Author : Tina Rosenberg
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of Cain written by Tina Rosenberg and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1992-10 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning journalist Tina Rosenberg spent five years in Latin America--drinking coffee with hit men and sunbathing with death-squad financiers--to understand people for whom violence is a way of life. Her six vivid and haunting portraits illuminate the human face of violence, not only in Latin America, but all over the world.

A Kid's Guide to Latino History

Author : Valerie Petrillo
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613742207
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book A Kid's Guide to Latino History written by Valerie Petrillo and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kid's Guide to Latino History features more than 50 hands-on activities, games, and crafts that explore the diversity of Latino culture and teach children about the people, experiences, and events that have shaped Hispanic American history. Kids can: * Fill Mexican cascarones for Easter * Learn to dance the merengue from the Dominican Republic * Write a short story using &“magical realism&” from Columbia * Build Afro-Cuban Bongos * Create a vejigante mask from Puerto Rico * Make Guatemalan worry dolls * Play Loteria, or Mexican bingo, and learn a little Spanish * And much more Did you know that the first immigrants to live in America were not the English settlers in Jamestown or the Pilgrims in Plymouth, but the Spanish? They built the first permanent American settlement in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565. The long and colorful history of Latinos in America comes alive through learning about the missions and early settlements in Florida, New Mexico, Arizona, and California; exploring the Santa Fe Trail; discovering how the Mexican-American War resulted in the Southwest becoming part of the United States; and seeing how recent immigrants from Central and South America bring their heritage to cities like New York and Chicago. Latinos have transformed American culture and kids will be inspired by Latino authors, artists, athletes, activists, and others who have made significant contributions to American history.

"Slowly, Slowly, Slowly," Said the Sloth

Author : Eric Carle
Publisher : World of Eric Carle
ISBN 13 : 0399239545
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book "Slowly, Slowly, Slowly," Said the Sloth written by Eric Carle and published by World of Eric Carle. This book was released on 2002-08-26 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the lush world of the tropical rain forest, this original picture book about a slow moving sloth who is smarter than he looks is an exquisite showcase for Carle's colorful collage art with a meaningful message. Full-color illustrations.

Children of South America

Author : Katharine A. Hodge
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Children of South America written by Katharine A. Hodge and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written based on the experiences of Christian missionaries who visited various parts of South American countries from the coastlines of Peru to the rainforests of Brazil. The author, Katharine A. Hodge, specifically focused on highlighting the cultures and daily habits of children in the region.

The Circulation of Children

Author : Jessaca B. Leinaweaver
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822391503
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Circulation of Children written by Jessaca B. Leinaweaver and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-26 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this vivid ethnography, Jessaca B. Leinaweaver explores “child circulation,” informal arrangements in which indigenous Andean children are sent by their parents to live in other households. At first glance, child circulation appears tantamount to child abandonment. When seen in that light, the practice is a violation of international norms regarding children’s rights, guidelines that the Peruvian state relies on in regulating legal adoptions. Leinaweaver demonstrates that such an understanding of the practice is simplistic and misleading. Her in-depth ethnographic analysis reveals child circulation to be a meaningful, pragmatic social practice for poor and indigenous Peruvians, a flexible system of kinship that has likely been part of Andean lives for centuries. Child circulation may be initiated because parents cannot care for their children, because a childless elder wants company, or because it gives a young person the opportunity to gain needed skills. Leinaweaver provides insight into the emotional and material factors that bring together and separate indigenous Andean families in the highland city of Ayacucho. She describes how child circulation is intimately linked to survival in the city, which has had to withstand colonialism, economic isolation, and the devastating civil war unleashed by the Shining Path. Leinaweaver examines the practice from the perspective of parents who send their children to live in other households, the adults who receive them, and the children themselves. She relates child circulation to international laws and norms regarding children’s rights, adoptions, and orphans, and to Peru’s history of racial conflict and violence. Given that history, Leinaweaver maintains that it is not surprising that child circulation, a practice associated with Peru’s impoverished indigenous community, is alternately ignored, tolerated, or condemned by the state.

Do Our Children Have a Chance?

Author : José R. Molinas Vega
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821389025
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Do Our Children Have a Chance? written by José R. Molinas Vega and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reports on the status and evolution of human opportunity in Latin America and the Caribbean by tracking equity in access to key services using newly-available data.

Minor Omissions

Author : Tobias Hecht
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299180336
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book Minor Omissions written by Tobias Hecht and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2002-09-07 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin American history—the stuff of wars, elections, conquests, inventions, colonization, and all those other events and processes attributed to adults—has also been lived and partially forged by children. Taking a fresh look at Latin American and Caribbean society over the course of more than half a millennium, this book explores how the omission of children from the region's historiography may in fact be no small matter. Children currently make up one-third of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean, and over the centuries they have worked, played, worshipped, committed crimes, and fought and suffered in wars. Regarded as more promising converts to the Christian faith than adults, children were vital in European efforts to invent loyal subjects during the colonial era. In the contemporary economies of Latin America and the Caribbean—where 23 percent of people live on a dollar per day or less—the labor of children may spell the difference between survival and starvation for millions of households. Minor Omissions brings together scholars of history, anthropology, religion, and art history as well as a talented young author who has lived in the streets of a Brazilian city since the age of nine. The book closes with the prophetic dystopian tale "The Children's Rebellion" by the noted Uruguayan writer Cristina Peri Rossi.

Messengers of Rain and Other Poems from Latin America

Author : Claudia M. Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Messengers of Rain and Other Poems from Latin America written by Claudia M. Lee and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of poems translated into English presents traditional pre-Columbian work alongside contemporary poetry collected from nineteen Latin American countries, ranging from nature and nonsense to politics and magic.

A Thousand White Butterflies

Author : Jessica Betancourt-Perez
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1632898438
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book A Thousand White Butterflies written by Jessica Betancourt-Perez and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As if being new to the United States wasn't hard enough, Isabella's first day of school is canceled due to snow! Isabella has recently arrived from Colombia with her mother and abuela. She misses Papa, who is still in South America. It's her first day of school, her make-new-friends day, but when classes are canceled because of too much snow, Isabella misses warm, green, Colombia more than ever. Then Isabella meets Katie and finds out that making friends in the cold is easier than she thought!

South American Animals

Author : Caroline Arnold
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780688155650
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book South American Animals written by Caroline Arnold and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the variety of animals found in the rainforests, mountains, grasslands, and coastal regions of South America, including the birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians.

A Song of Frutas

Author : Margarita Engle
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1534444890
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book A Song of Frutas written by Margarita Engle and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Pura Belpré Award–winning author Margarita Engle comes a lively, rhythmic picture book about a little girl visiting her grandfather who is a pregonero—a singing street vendor in Cuba—and helping him sell his frutas. When we visit mi abuelo, I help him sell frutas, singing the names of each fruit as we walk, our footsteps like drumbeats, our hands like maracas, shaking… The little girl loves visiting her grandfather in Cuba and singing his special songs to sell all kinds of fruit: mango, limón, naranja, piña, and more! Even when they’re apart, grandfather and granddaughter can share rhymes between their countries like un abrazo—a hug—made of words carried on letters that soar across the distance like songbirds.

Who's in and Who's Out

Author : Jere R. Behrman
Publisher : IDB
ISBN 13 : 1931003424
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Who's in and Who's Out written by Jere R. Behrman and published by IDB. This book was released on 2003 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores various forms of social exclusion in Latin America, including residential segregation in Bolivian cities, exclusion in health care in Brazil, barriers to legal status of Nicaraguan immigrants in Costa Rica, geographic isolation in El Salvador, and educational inequality among the indigenous in Mexico.

Coquí in the City

Author : Nomar Perez
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 059310904X
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Coquí in the City written by Nomar Perez and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartfelt picture book based on the author-illustrator's own experiences, about a boy who moves to the U.S. mainland from Puerto Rico and realizes that New York City might have more in common with San Juan than he initially thought. Miguel's pet frog, Coquí, is always with him: as he greets his neighbors in San Juan, buys quesitos from the panadería, and listens to his abuelo's story about meeting baseball legend Roberto Clemente. Then Miguel learns that he and his parents are moving to the U.S. mainland, which means leaving his beloved grandparents, home in Puerto Rico, and even Coquí behind. Life in New York City is overwhelming, with unfamiliar buildings, foods, and people. But when he and Mamá go exploring, they find a few familiar sights that remind them of home, and Miguel realizes there might be a way to keep a little bit of Puerto Rico with him--including the love he has for Coquí--wherever he goes.

Young Children of Black Immigrants in America

Author : Randy Capps
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983159117
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Young Children of Black Immigrants in America written by Randy Capps and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the well-being and development of children in black immigrant families (most with parents from Africa and the Caribbean). There are 1.3 million such children in the United States. While children in these families account for 11 percent of all black children in America and represent a rapidly growing segment of the U.S. population, they remain largely ignored by researchers. To address this important gap in knowledge, the Migration Policy Institute's (MPI) National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy embarked on a project to study these children from birth to age ten. Chapters include analysis of the changing immigration flow to the United States; the role of family and school relationships in the well-being of African immigrant children; exploration of the effects of ethnicity and foreign-born status on infant health; and parenting behavior, health, and cognitive development among children in black immigrant families. Contributors include Randy Capps (MPI), Dylan Conger (George Washington University), Cati Coe (Rutgers University-Camden), Danielle A. Crosby (University of North Carolina-Greensboro), Angela Valdovinos D'Angelo (University of Chicago), Elizabeth Debraggio (New York University), Fabienne Doucet (Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development), Sarah Dryden-Peterson (University of Toronto), Angelica S. Dunbar (University of North Carolina-Greensboro), Tiffany L. Green (Virginia Commonwealth University), Megan Hatch (George Washington University), Donald J. Hernandez (Hunter College and City University of New York), Margot Jackson (Brown University), Kristen McCabe (MPI), Lauren Rich (University of Chicago), Amy Ellen Schwartz (New York University), Julie Spielberger (University of Chicago), and Kevin J. A. Thomas (Pennsylvania State University).

Bring Your Own Children: South America!

Author : Robin Malinosky-Rummell
Publisher : Danforth Book Distribution
ISBN 13 : 9781887542487
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Bring Your Own Children: South America! written by Robin Malinosky-Rummell and published by Danforth Book Distribution. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most families do not even consider adding it to their travel itineraries. But Robin and her family did! Follow them and learn how you, too, can travel around this fascinating continent from the heart of the Amazon rainforest through ancient Incan civilizations and modern luxurious high rises to the thundering glaciers at the southern tip. South America can be an exciting, family-friendly vacation destination and an increasingly attractive, affordable alternative to the sharply rising costs of a trip to Europe or even the United States!