TY  - BOOK
AU  - Karch, Andrew
AB  - In the United States, preschool education is characterized by the dominance of a variegated private sector and patchy, uncoordinated oversight of the public sector. Tracing the history of the American debate over preschool education, Andrew Karch argues that the current state of decentralization and fragmentation is the consequence of a chain of reactions and counterreactions to policy decisions dating from the late 1960s and early 1970s, when preschool advocates did not achieve their vision for a comprehensive national program but did manage to foster initiatives at both the state and national levels. Over time, beneficiaries of these initiatives and officials with jurisdiction over preschool education have become ardent defenders of the status quo. Today, advocates of greater government involvement must take on a diverse and entrenched set of constituencies resistant to policy change.
DO  - 10.3998/mpub.813135
ID  - OAPEN ID: 625245
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 841170706
ID  - OAPEN ID: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45676
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Child care
KW  - Child development
KW  - Day care
KW  - Early childhood education
KW  - Head Start (program)
KW  - Preschool
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45676/1/625245.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45676/1/625245.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45676/1/625245.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45676/1/625245.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45676/1/625245.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32301
PB  - University of Michigan Press
PP  - Ann Arbor
PY  - 2013
SN  - 9780472118724
SN  - 9780472118724
TI  - Early Start : Preschool Politics in the United States
ER  - 
