A Next Social Contract for the Primary Years of Education

Autor/inn/en	Guernsey, Lisa; Mead, Sara
Institution	New America Foundation
Titel	A Next Social Contract for the Primary Years of Education
Quelle	(2010), (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Early Childhood Education; Preschool Children; Primary Education; Educational Change; Educational Policy; Access to Education; Educational Quality + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Primarbereich; Bildungsreform; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität
Abstract	This author contends that, as a nation, we are doing a very good job of squandering human potential and making life harder for all Americans as a result, and that this has to stop. If our government, at the local, state, and federal level, does not start investing in education systems that reach children before kindergarten, and if it does not get serious about providing children with high-quality instruction throughout the earliest years of their schooling, it is wasting taxpayer dollars, ignoring decades of research, and disregarding the extraordinary potential of millions of children who otherwise have very little chance of succeeding in school. This paper lays out the case for a fundamental rethinking of public policy related to children's primary years in education, starting at age three and reaching up through the third grade. (Contains 33 endnotes.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10