First Things First!: Creating the New American Primary School

Takanishi, Ruby

ISBN 10: 0807756938 / ISBN 13: 9780807756935

Verlag: Teachers College Press, 2016

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Inhaltsangabe:

This book draws on a half century of efforts (1960s to the present) to forge a consensus that early education is a public responsibility in the United States. While that consensus has not yet been achieved, recent progress provides a platform for identifying new strategies, based on lessons learned. Transforming the American primary school, starting with threes and fours and ending at age ten (PreK-5) is the focusof First Things First. This book calls attention to the relative neglect of primary or elementary education in the recurring waves of education reform that have targeted middle and high schools. First Things First also points to the chaos generated when PreK is added onto the K-12 grades without attention to its ramifications for the later grades, especially Kindergarten. The book will also briefly address what should happen before PreK (Birth to Three) and after Grade 5, including middle and high school reform, to position the new primary school in an educational enterprise that is committed to life-long learning.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Ruby Takanishi is senior research fellow in the Early & Elementary Education Policy Division at New America in Washington, D.C. She has been honored by the American Education Research Association with the 2014 Distinguished Public Service Award.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: First Things First!: Creating the New ...
Verlag: Teachers College Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Good