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Genre/Form: | Nonfiction |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Shore, Rima. What kids need. Boston : Beacon Press, ©2002 (OCoLC)654425286 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Rima Shore |
ISBN: | 0807041289 9780807041284 |
OCLC Number: | 49664382 |
Notes: | "A Carnegie Corporation initiative : a decade of progress in early education." |
Description: | xiv, 278 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | 1. What families need -- How parents matter -- Becoming an expectant parent -- Becoming someone's world -- Fathers stand and deliver in Baltimore -- Becoming a child's first teacher -- Becoming a guide -- Becoming a protector -- Becoming a provider -- Becoming a "shield" -- The case for parent education and family support -- Home visitation -- 2. Infants and toddlers -- Late bloomers -- Health care for young children -- Children's mental health -- Pediatrics plus: Colorado parents rely on healthy steps -- Learning in the context of relationships -- Expanding parents' opportunities to nurture infants -- Infant and toddler care -- does quality matter? -- Who is licensed to care for children? -- Widening the policy lens -- Early head start -- Of tots, teachers, and mashed potatoes: early head start through the eyes of one of the nation's first head start "graduates" -- Protecting young children from injuiry and illness -- Linking providers with health services -- A compass for early childhood policy -- 3. Preschool years -- Moving on two tracks -- Federal preschool initiatives -- State preschool initiatives -- State prekindergarten models -- The case of universal preschool -- Today's three R's -- Readiness -- How ready are today's preschoolers? -- Ready schools -- Reading -- Results -- Investing in the early childhood workforce -- The challenge. 4. Common ground, higher ground -- The accident of geography -- Bowling alone -- For West Virginia families, "Starting Points" is just around the bend -- 5. The agenda for change -- Lessons from a decade of progress -- Today's best ideas -- What kids need -- Looking ahead -- If we were starting now. |
Responsibility: | [Rima Shore]. |
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