附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-217) and index.
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.
