Title: Shaping the preschool agenda : early literacy, public policy, and professional beliefs /
Authors: McGill-Franzen, Anne.
Publisher: State University of New York Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Readiness for school.; Education, Preschool United States Curricula.; Children with social disabilities Education Reading.; Educational equalization United States.; Education, Preschool Curricula United States.; Children with social disabilities Education United States.; Reading United States
Contents: Making children ready for school: an issue for the 1990s -- Early schooling, literacy, and the law -- The early kindergarten, readiness, and reading -- Child care, social class, and the government -- Development: from mere description to a moral face -- School readiness defined: from Mama Robin to the SATs -- The authorities on developmentally appropriate practice: dispositions, language, and cognitively oriented active learning -- Readiness for school, but what counts as "school"? education, socialization, and habilitation -- Equal opportunity for the least of us and popular in the suburbs: public school for four-year-olds -- Making the agenda: conflicts, windows, and labels -- Beginning reading materials: are they getting harder? -- The shared history: literacy, young children, and early schooling.