Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Making children ready for school: an issue for the 1990s
  • Early schooling, literacy, and the law
  • The early kindergarten, readiness, and reading
  • Child care, social class, and the government
  • Development: from mere description to a moral face
  • School readiness defined: from Mama Robin to the SATs
  • The authorities on developmentally appropriate practice: dispositions, language, and cognitively oriented active learning
  • Readiness for school, but what counts as "school"? education, socialization, and habilitation
  • Equal opportunity for the least of us and popular in the suburbs: public school for four-year-olds
  • Making the agenda: conflicts, windows, and labels
  • Beginning reading materials: are they getting harder?
  • The shared history: literacy, young children, and early schooling.