Kids First Five Big Ideas for Transforming Children's Lives and America's Future

Name: Kids First Five Big Ideas for Transforming Children's Lives and America's Future
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ISBN: 9781586489472

ISBN-10: 158648947X

ISBN-13: 9781586489472

Edition: 2011

Authors: David Kirp

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It may "take a village to raise a child," but most American families are struggling, with diminishing social support, to do the job on their own. While parents work longer hours for less and the costs of childcare, healthcare, and college skyrocket, the share of the U.S. budget spent on kids has fallen 22 percent since 1960. More and more children may well not make it to a healthy, productive adulthood. That's terrible for them--and for us as well. It doesn't have to be this way. In this book, renowned expert David L. Kirp clarifies the importance of investing wisely in children. He outlines a visionary "Kids First" policy agenda that's guided by a "golden rule" principle: Every child…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 3/1/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.836
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.



A Note from the Author


Introduction: From Crib to College



The Littlest Schoolhouse


Teaching Parents to Teach Their Kids



A Garden of Earthly Delights


Delivering Brainy Education to Tots



All Together Now


Creating Academies of Learning and Life



The Kindness of Strangers


Offering Kids a Helping Hand



The Universal Piggy Bank


Giving Every Child a Nest Egg



The Smart Politics of the Heart


Appendix: A Kids-First Budget


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index