Childhood Well-Being: A Mirror of the American Character
It is a dangerous and potentially failed thing to manipulate an audience by evoking our tendency to be compassionate for children. I have often used the documentary The Corridor of Shame, concerning the inequity in school funding in my home state of South Carolina, in my education courses both to highlight the corrosive power of poverty in the lives and learning of children and to confront the dishonesty of emotional appeals that do more to harm a valid message than reinforce it.
With that acknowledgement in mind, I was struck by the 60 Minutes piece on childhood poverty in the U.S.especially as we place this report in the context of two recent reports on child well-being: the State of America’s
With that acknowledgement in mind, I was struck by the 60 Minutes piece on childhood poverty in the U.S.especially as we place this report in the context of two recent reports on child well-being: the State of America’s