The promise of preschool : from Head Start to universal pre-kindergarten /
The past 45 years have seen the emergence of education for young children as a national issue; spurred by the initiation of the Head Start program in the 1960s; efforts to create a child care system in the 1970s; and the campaign to reform K-12 schooling in the 1980s. Today, the push to make prescho...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Promises and politics : Head Start sets the stage in the 1960s
- Creating a patchwork approach to child care in the 1970s
- Separate strands : early education and child care for poor children in the 1980s
- Opening doors to universal preschool in the 1990s
- Preschool for all : building a movement in the 2000s
- "Preschool for all" or preschool for the needy? Universal and targeted approaches in the states
- Mixed blessings : delivering preschool inside and outside the "education tent"
- Putting the promise of preschool into practice
- Conclusion: History lessons for preschool advocates.