The Price We Pay: Economic and Social Consequences of Inadequate EducationWhile the high cost of education draws headlines, the cost of not educating America's children goes largely ignored. The Price We Pay remedies this oversight by highlighting the private and public costs of inadequate education. In this volume, leading scholars from a broad range of fields including economics, education, demography, and public health attach hard numbers to the relationship between educational attainment and such critical indicators as