{"product_id":"reinventing-early-care-and-education-isbn-9780787903190","title":"Reinventing Early Care and Education","description":"This book examines the critical issues related to providing quality services for young children. The authors tackles these serious social problem with intelligence and clarity, pointing out the action we must take for the sake of our children and our nation.  1. Introduction: The Changing Context of American Early Care and Education \u003cbr\u003e Part One: Quality Programs: The Case for an Expanded Definition\u003cbr\u003e 2. Parents' Perspectives on Quality in Early Care and Education (Mary Larner)\u003cbr\u003e 3. Reframing the Quality Issue(Deborah Phillips)\u003cbr\u003e 4. International Approaches to Defining Quality(Jennifer Bush, Deborah Phillips)\u003cbr\u003e 5. Multicultural Perspectives on Quality(Nancy E. Cohen, Delia Pompa)\u003cbr\u003e Part Two: The Infrastructure: The Case for a Quality System\u003cbr\u003e 6. Licensing: Lessons from Other Occupations(Anne Mitchell)\u003cbr\u003e 7. Training and Professional Development: International Approaches(Eliza Pritchard)\u003cbr\u003e 8. Regulation: Alternative Approaches from Other Fields(Katherine L. Scurria)\u003cbr\u003e 9. Governance: Child Care, Federalism, and Public Policy(William T. Gormley, Jr.)\u003cbr\u003e 10. Funding and Financing: Moving Toward a More Universal System(Martin H. Gerry)\u003cbr\u003e 11. Quality Infrastructure for Family Child Care(Shelby H. Miller)\u003cbr\u003e Part Three: Implementing Change\u003cbr\u003e 12. Media and Mass Communications Strategies,(Kathy Bonk, Meredith Wile)\u003cbr\u003e 13. Citizen Participation: Transforming Access Into Influence(Christopher Howard)\u003cbr\u003e 14. Organizing Communities and Constituents for Change(Ernesto Cortes, Jr.)\u003cbr\u003e 15. Understanding the Complexities of Educational Change(Ann Liberman, Diane Wood, Beverly Falk)\u003cbr\u003e 16. The Synchrony of Stakeholders: Lessons from the Disabilities Rights Movement(H. Rutherford Turnbull, Ann P. Turnbull)\u003cbr\u003e Part Four: Creating a Quality Early Care and Education System\u003cbr\u003e 17. A Vision for a Quality Early Care and Education System(Sharon L. Kagan, Nancy E. Cohen)\u003cbr\u003e 18. Getting from Here to There: The Process and the Players(Nancy E. Cohen, Sharon L. Kagan)  ?Reinventing Early Care and Education provides badly needed insights and solutions to the quality problem in child care and early education in our nation. Full of specific new ideas, this is essential reading for policy makers and practitioners.? --Governor Roy Romer, state of Colorado\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ?The comprehensive approach to improving the qualitative aspects of early care and education for children in the United States makes this volume a must for all who have made children a priority. The attention given to multicultural perspectives is encouraging and is a positive move toward examining the growing importance of placing this analysis in a global context. Children the world over need that which is recommAnded for children in the United States.? --GwAndolyn Calvert Baker, president and CEO, United States Committee for UNICEF\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ?This seminal volume on the need for a much-improved early childhood education system incisively demonstrates that our nation can do much better in meeting the needs of our youngest children. The book offers a superb synthesis of the latest research and available action strategies that should be considered of the highest priority by America's pivotal institutions.? --David A. Hamburg, M.D., president, Carnegie Corporation of New York\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ?Because child care will be crucial to the success of state welfare reform efforts, federal funding for child care will almost triple over the next six years. Unless steps are taken to improve the quality of these services--ensuring quantity with quality--I believe that increased funding is of limited value. The challenge is before us and we cannot afford to fail. Governors, state human service administrators, and child care providers will find Reinventing Early Care and Education an invaluable resource in the development of child care that incorporates high quality, early childhood education.? --Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum, state of Kansas SHARON L. KAGAN,senior associate at the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale University, is a frequent consultant to national policy makers and is internationally recognized for her work in the early care and education field. NANCY E. COHEN was a research associate at the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale University and has examined programs and infrastructure services in early care and education. By the year 2000, all children in America will start school ready to learn. For five years, this has been our number one educational goal--yet, today's children are not receiving the early care and education services that they deserve and the nation needs to reach this goal. Reinventing Early Care and Education, edited by two leading thinkers in the field, provides not only the necessary vision, but a working blueprint for policy reform and program development.Sharon L. Kagan and Nancy E. Cohen have assembled internationally recognized experts in early childhood development, public education, family support, political science, psychology, and economics to examine critical issues related to providing quality services for young children--including parent engagement, licensing, professional development, regulation, governance funding and financing. Reinventing Early Care and Education defines the essential elements of a quality system and suggests innovative strategies for improving pedagogy and practice in family child care homes and early childhood centers. It also offers alternative approaches to finance and governance, and discusses how communities can mobilize citizens and the media to gain support for social change. This volume is timely and tough. It tackles a serious social problem with intelligence and clarity, pointing out the action we must take for the sake of our children and our nation. ?This seminal volume offers a superb synthesis of the latest research and available action strategies that should be considered of the highest priority by America's pivotal institutions.?--David A. Hamburg, M.D., President, Carnegie Corporation of New YorkInternationally recognized experts in early childhood development, public education, family support, political science, psychology, and economics examine critical issues related to providing quality services for young children--including parent engagement, licensing, professional development, regulation, governance funding and financing.","brand":"Jossey-Bass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989932720357,"sku":"NP9780787903190","price":59.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780787903190.jpg?v=1761785958","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/reinventing-early-care-and-education-isbn-9780787903190","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}