附註:"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.
