today's best ideas for nurturing, teaching, and protecting young children /
[Rima Shore].
1st electronic reading ed.
Boston :
Beacon Press,
2002.
1 online resource (xiv, 278 pages)
"A Carnegie Corporation initiative: A decade of progress in early education."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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What kids need.
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Child development-- United States.
Child welfare-- United States.
Early childhood education-- United States.
Family services-- United States.
Parenting-- United States.
Child development.
Child welfare.
Early childhood education.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS-- Parenting-- Child Rearing.