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The Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics
Harvard University Press
September 2007
On Sale: August 27, 2007
352 pages
ISBN: 0674026411
EAN: 9780674026414
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The rich have always valued early education, and for the
past forty years, millions of poor kids have had Head Start.
Now, more and more middle class parents have realized that a
good preschool is the smartest investment they can make in
their children's future in a competitive world. As The
Sandbox Investment shows, their needs are key to the growing
call for universal preschool. Writing with the verve of a magazine journalist and the
authority of a scholar, David L. Kirp makes the ideal guide
to this quiet movement. He crouches in classrooms where
committed teachers engage lively four-year-olds, and reveals
the findings of an extraordinary longitudinal study that
shows the life-changing impact of preschool. He talks with
cutting-edge researchers from neuroscience and genetics to
economics, whose findings increasingly show how powerfully
early childhood shapes the arc of children's lives. Kids-first politics is smart economics: paying for preschool
now can help save us from paying for unemployment, crime,
and emergency rooms later. As Kirp reports from the inside,
activists and political leaders have turned this potent idea
into campaigns and policies in red and blue states alike. The Sandbox Investment is the first full story of a campaign
that asks Americans to endorse a vision of society that does
well by doing good. For anyone who is interested in politics
or the social uses of research--for anyone who's interested
in the children's futures--it's a compelling read.
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