Early Start : : Preschool Politics in the United States / / Andrew Karch.
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 American debate over preschool education, Andrew Karch argues that the current state of decentralization and...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan Press,, [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 274 pages) |
| Notes: | This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.