The promise of preschool : from Head Start to universal pre-kindergarten / Elizabeth Rose.
Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: x, 278 p. : ill., map ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780195395075 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0195395077 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 372.210973 22
- LB1140.23 .R67 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-271) and index.
Promises and politics : Head Start sets the stage in the 1960s -- Creating a patchwork approach to child care in the 1970s -- Separate strands : early education and child care for poor children in the 1980s -- Opening doors to universal preschool in the 1990s -- Preschool for all : building a movement in the 2000s -- "Preschool for all" or preschool for the needy? Universal and targeted approaches in the states -- Mixed blessings : delivering preschool inside and outside the "education tent" -- Putting the promise of preschool into practice -- Conclusion: History lessons for preschool advocates.