Sandbox Investment The Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics

Name: Sandbox Investment The Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics
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ISBN: 9780674032354

ISBN-10: 0674032357

ISBN-13: 9780674032354

Edition: 2007

Authors: David L. Kirp

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Listen to a short interview with David L. Kirp Host: Chris Gondek Producer: Heron & CraneThe rich have always valued early education, and for the past forty years, millions of poor kids have had Head Start. Now, more and more middle class parents have realized that a good preschool is the smartest investment they can make in their children's future in a competitive world. As The Sandbox Investment shows, their needs are key to the growing call for universal preschool.Writing with the verve of a magazine journalist and the authority of a scholar, David L. Kirp makes the ideal guide to this quiet movement. He crouches in classrooms where committed teachers engage lively four-year-olds, and…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 5/31/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

David L. Kirp is Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of fourteen books, most recently Almost Home: America's Love-Hate Relationship with Community.



Introduction: Before School



Small Miracles



Life Way After Preschool



The Futures Market



The Imprimatur of Science



Who Cares for the Children?



Jump-Starting a Movement



The Politics of the Un-Dramatic



English Lessons



Kids-First Politics


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index