Kids first
Subtitle: five big ideas for transforming children's lives and America's future
By: David L. Kirp
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781586489472; 9781610391030
Subjects: Early childhood education; Attitudes; Preschool teaching; Anecdotes; Teaching; School children
Other titles: Kids f1rst
Description: Kirp clarifies the importance of our investing wisely in children, and offers accounts of five big cradle-to-college initiatives that can change the arc of all children's lives.
Notes: On cover, the word "first" is spelled with a "1" instead of an "i."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-258) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: From crib to college; title: The littlest schoolhouse: teaching parents to teach their kids; title: A garden of earthly delights: delivering brainy education to tots; title: All together now: creating academies of learning and life; title: The kindness of strangers: offering kids a helping hand; title: The universal piggy bank: giving every child a nest egg; title: The smart politics of the heart; title: Appendix: A kids-first budget.