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Standardized childhood, the political and cultural struggle over early education, Bruce Fuller with Margaret Bridges and Seeta Pai

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-342) and index

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Standardized childhood

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Bruce Fuller with Margaret Bridges and Seeta Pai

"Sociologist Bruce Fuller traveled the country - sitting in preschool classrooms, exploring into the origins of universal preschool in California and Oklahoma, and interviewing this movement's leaders - to understand the ideologies of childhood and the political forces at play. He details how these new progressives earnestly seek to extend the rigors of public schooling down into the lives of very young children. Fuller then illuminates the stiff resistance by children's activists, ethnic leaders, and conservatives, who hold less trust in government solutions and more faith in nonprofits and local groups in contributing to the upbringing of young children."--Jacket

the political and cultural struggle over early education

Preface : who defines childhood? -- Why universal preschool now? -- The historical contest over early education -- Welcome to the rainbow room -- Oklahoma : the brave new world -- California : preschool with pluralism -- Which children benefit from preschool -- Early learning in Latino communities -- Moving forward : stronger families, richer childhoods