Title: An equal start? : providing quality early education and care for disadvantaged children /
Authors: Stewart, Kitty, 1970-; Gambaro, Ludovica,; Waldfogel, Jane
Year: 2014
Subjects: Early childhood education Great Britain.; Child development Great Britain.; Education.
Abstract: Early childhood education and care has become a central policy concern in many countries, and as services expand it is crucial to examine whether children from disadvantaged backgrounds receive equitable services. In An Equal Start? experts from eight countries the United States, the United Kingdom, Norway, France, the Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand, and Australia examine how early education and care is organized, funded, and regulated in their respective countries. They give up-to-date pictures of the access to services, providing rich insights into how policies play out in practice and the effects on the provision of services to disadvantaged children. Together they reveal a number of common tensions and complexities that many countries face in ensuring that early education and care is affordable, accessible, and of the highest possible quality.--
Contents: Equal access to early childhood education and care? : the case of the UK / Ludovica Gambaro, Kitty Stewart and Jane Waldfogel -- Towards universal quality early childhood education and care : the Norwegian model / Anne Lise Ellingsæter -- Equal access to quality care : lessons from France on providing high-quality and affordable early childhood education and care / Jeanne Fagnani -- Equal access to high-quality childcare in the Netherlands / Yusuf Emre Akgündüz and Janneke Plantenga -- Access and quality issues in early childhood education and care : the case of Germany / Pamela Oberhuemer -- New Zealand : a narrative of shifting policy directions for early childhood education and care / Helen May -- Early education and care in Australia : equity in a mixed market-based system? / Deborah Brennan and Marianne Fenech -- Delivering high-quality early childhood education and care to low-income children : how well is the US doing? / Katherine Magnuson and Jane Waldfogel -- Common challenges, lessons for policy / Kitty Stewart, Ludovica Gambaro, Jane Waldfogel and Jill Rutter.