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  title info:
    title: American kindergarten
    sub title: dispatches from the first year of school
  name:
    name part: Engel, Susan L.
    name part: 1959-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: "When we think of kindergarten, many might imagine joyous free play, and a tangle of trucks, dress-up clothes, and blocks, as five-year-olds explore their vivid imaginations and budding social skills. Others might envision a quiet group sitting cross-legged in a circle during story time. Neither of these scenes would be an inaccurate representation of the pivotal year of entry into traditional education in this country. However, neither offers a complete picture of what children do every day in those seemingly transparent, yet actually mysterious, classrooms. What can or should we expect during the first year of school? How are children learning and growing during those hours spent away from their homes? Susan Engel embarked on finding these answers in American Kindergarten: Dispatches from the First Year of School. Engel toured twenty-nine classrooms across fourteen states, observing each closely, with a special eye toward the ways each classroom's goals reflect its community. As she made her way across the country, Engel found that on the surface, kindergarten students are similar: good-natured, eager to learn, and deeply affectionate. Their classrooms, too, feature many of the same expectations, routines, and activities. But the differences between the classrooms were striking and often surprising. Over the two years of her classroom visits, Engel identified five promises that teachers and their classrooms make to their students: reading, order, thinking, identity, and love. Engel found that schools differ in how they prioritize and keep the promises they make; some make all five promises, while others emphasize only one or two. The five promises capture a set of values, aspirations, and goals that drive everything that happens in a classroom. Engaging and incisive, American Kindergarten is the story of the promises our country's schools make to five-year-old children, and how those promises are kept and sometimes broken"--
  table of contents: Beginnings : brimming with promise -- Enamored with you : the promise of love -- Everything in its place : the promise of order -- Open the door : the promise of reading -- Me, you, and us : the promise of identity -- Bringing the world inside : the promise of thinking -- Final thoughts : the sixth promise
  note: Susan Engel
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Kindergarten
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
  subject:
    topic: EDUCATION / General
  subject:
    topic: Kindergarten
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: LB1205 .E64 2026
  classification: 372.21/80973
  related item:
    title info:
      title: American kindergarten
    name:
      name part: Engel, Susan L., 1959-
    origin info:
      publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2026
    identifier: (DLC) 2025025542
    identifier: (OCoLC)1525438229
  identifier: 9780226846408 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0226846407
  identifier: 9780226825229
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: BRX
    record creation date: 260209
    record change date: 20260412194816.2
    record identifier: in00005778110
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng