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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מחבר ראשי: Karch, Andrew
פורמט: אלקטרוני ספר אלקטרוני
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2013.
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תוכן הענינים:
  • 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.