The Sandbox Investment
Subtitle: The Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: August 27, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780674026414
Subjects: Pre-school & kindergarten; Education; Education / Teaching; Educational Policy & Reform; Preschool & Kindergarten; Education / Educational Policy & Reform / School Safety & Violence; Educational Policy & Reform - School Safety; Public Policy - Social Policy; Education, Preschool; Philosophy; Political aspects; United States
Description: "The rich have always valued early education, and for the past forty years, millions of poor kids have had Head Start. Now, more and more middle class parents have realized that a good preschool is the smartest investment they can make in their children's future in a competitive world. As The Sandbox Investment shows, these families' needs are key to the growing call for universal preschool." "David L. Kirp crouches in classrooms where committed teachers engage lively four-year-olds, and reveals the findings of an extraordinary longitudinal study that shows the life-changing impact of preschool. He talks with cutting-edge researchers from neuroscience and genetics to economics, whose findings increasingly show how powerfully early childhood shapes the arc of children's lives."--BOOK JACKET.