Early Start : Preschool Politics in the United States /
This book presents a political history of the debate over preschool education policy in the United States. In the United States, preschool education is characterized by the dominance of a variegated private sector and patchy, uncoordinated oversight of the public sector. Tracing the history of the A...
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Ann Arbor :
The University of Michigan Press,
2013.
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Sisällysluettelo:
- Introduction : the preschool puzzle
- Early childhood policy and the American welfare state
- Historical precedents and forces for change
- A watershed episode : the comprehensive child development act
- Venue shopping, federalism, and the role of the states
- Congressional activity and the dissolving early childhood coalition
- Policy stability and political change in the 1980s
- The congressional heritage of a critical juncture
- The contemporary preschool movement in the states
- Conclusion : the future of preschool politics.