Early care and education for children in poverty
Subtitle: promises, programs, and long-term results
By: edited by W. Steven Barnett, Sarane Spence Boocock.
Contributors: Barnett, W. Steven.; Boocock, Sarane Spence.
Series: SUNY series, youth social services, schooling, and public policy; SUNY series, early childhood education
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Poor children -- Education (Early childhood) -- United States.; Poor children -- Services for -- United States.; Child care -- United States.
Description: "Barnett and Boocock present a multi-disciplinary assessment of the long-term outcomes of early care and education in the United States and abroad. Innovative new research, together with up-to-date, comprehensive reviews, provide lessons for the design of early childhood programs, policies, and research. Contributors from the fields of education, psychology, sociology, and economics address questions about the causal relationships through which early childhood programs produce their long-term effects, the characteristics of effective early childhood programs, how nations respond to the global social and economic trends that are changing the lives of children and their families everywhere, child care's effects on maternal labor force participation, the potential and perils of welfare reform, and the implications of national economic and political structures for early care and education policies."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-314) and indexes.