Early care and education for children in poverty : promises, programs, and long-term results

Barnett, W. Steven. (Added Author). Boocock, Sarane Spence. (Added Author).

Summary: "Barnett and Boocock present a multi-disciplinary assessment of the long-term outcomes of early care and education in the United States and abroad. Innovative new research, together with up-to-date, comprehensive reviews, provide lessons for the design of early childhood programs, policies, and research. Contributors from the fields of education, psychology, sociology, and economics address questions about the causal relationships through which early childhood programs produce their long-term effects, the characteristics of effective early childhood programs, how nations respond to the global social and economic trends that are changing the lives of children and their families everywhere, child care's effects on maternal labor force participation, the potential and perils of welfare reform, and the implications of national economic and political structures for early care and education policies."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 0791436195
ISBN: 9780791436196
ISBN: 0791436209
ISBN: 9780791436202
ISBN: 0585043515
ISBN: 9780585043517
Physical Description: print
vi, 341 pages ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1998.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-314) and indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

Long-term effects on cognitive development and school success / W.S. Barnett -- Long-term outcomes in other nations / S.S. Boocock & M. Larner -- Preschool program quality in programs for children in poverty / E.C. Frede -- Regenerating two-generation programs / R.G. St. Pierre, J.I. Layzer, and H.V. Barnes -- Effects of welfare reform on teenage parents and their children / J.L. Aber, J. Brooks-Gunn, and R. Maynard -- Early-childhood programs and success in school : the Abecedarian study / F.A. Campbell [and others] -- How preschool education influences long-term cognitive development and school success : a casual model / W.S. Barnett, J.W. Young, and L.J. Schweinhart -- Economic and social disadvantages of young children : alternative policy responses / D.J. Hernandez -- Equity-efficiency tradeoffs and government policy in the United States, the Netherlands, and Sweden / S.S. Gustafsson and F.P. Stafford -- Culture clash : translating research findings into public policy / A. Zervigon-Hakes.