Early Education in the Public Schools Lessons

"This pragmatic and visionary work provides impressive new evidence for the Anduring beneficial effecto of high-quality, family-oriented, comprehensive early education in a public school setting." -Edward Zigler, Sterling Professor of Psychology, Yale University

Penny Hauser-Cram is a professor at Boston College in the Lynch School of Education. She received her Ed.D. in Human Development from Harvard University in 1983 and her research focuses on children and adolescents with developmental disabilities and children and adolescents living in poverty.

Foreword
The Movement Toward Earlier Education
The Need for Early Childhood Programs: Changing Social Realities for Families
The Benefits of Early Education: What Do We Know?
The Current Debate: Should Public Schools Be Responsible for the Very Young?
The Brookline Early Education Project (BEEP)
The Origins of BEEP
An Overview of the Program and Its Participants
Parent Education and Support
Educational Philosophy and Approach
The Bilingual Component
Health and Development Monitoring
What Parents Gain
Children's Future Success in School
Implications for Policymakers
A Better Education for All Children
Appendixes
Questions and Issues Parents Have Raised
Questions to Structure Home Visits
List of Health and Developmental Measures
Evaluation Data
Early Education Philosophy Statement
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Early Education in the Public Schools Lessons from a Comprehensive Birth-to-Kindergarten Program

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