subject to wildly fluctuating political support, and funding for education is not a high priority at the legislative level in state and federal government. Research shows that effectiveness of such programs becomes progressively weaker, as the students become older (137). The authors believe that the failure to educate the educationally disadvantaged has catastrophic consequences for social and economic well-being in the United States (40). These students who do not do well in school become the persons who weigh heavily on the social services system, drift into crime, and end up having another generation of children who move through the same cycles. It is impossible to completely quantify such trends, but the implications loom rather hopelessly.
This volume does not really deal with the causes of the presence of disadvantaged children and youth in the schools. The emphasis is more on a scientific approach to the data, making it very clear to the reader that these students exist in very large n
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