| Description |
xv, 199 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Renewing American schools |
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Renewing American schools.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. The Realities of Family Life. Changes in Family Life. Public Response to Changes in Family Life -- 2. Remaking Schools to Fit Families' Needs. Schools Reaching Out. The School of the 21st Century -- 3. Linking Child Care and Education: The Research Base. The Role of the Environment. Research on the Effects of Child Care. The Quality-Availability-Affordability of Care -- 4. Schools' Role in the Provision of Nonacademic Support Services: The Debate. Concerns. Advantages in the Use of the School -- 5. Implementation. Setting the Stage. Starting Implementation. Challenges and Opportunities. Widespread Implementation -- 6. Program Funding. Funding and Financing of the Human Services System. Our Response: The School of the 21st Century. |
| Summary |
Matia Finn-Stevenson and Edward Zigler argue that the federal government alone cannot address the need for child care and family support services that, like education, should be addressed locally. The authors use their Schools of the 21st Century (21C) program as an example of how schools can provide child care, outreach services, home visitations, and health and nutrition services--in addition to reading, writing, and arithmetic. Conceptualized in 1987 in response to the child care crisis in this country, 21C has been implemented in over 600 schools in seventeen states. However, schools' involvement with increasingly younger children is not without controversy. The authors also address questions regarding evaluation and effective implementation and scale-up strategies, and consider what changes in teacher training programs should occur to prepare teachers for working in schools of the twenty-first century; what provisions should be made to accommodate for the need to staff schools with personnel trained in early child development; and what changes need to be made in the financial structures of schools to accommodate child care and support services. Whereas Part Two of the book discusses the authors' Schools of the 21st Century program in considerable detail, Parts One and Three address a broader range of issues concerning the effects that early education has on later school success and the various policy and conceptual approaches that have been tried, both nationally and internationally. Finn-Stevenson and Zigler also critically review the research on the effects of child care on children and other school reform initiatives that have been implemented in schools. Schools of the 21st Century is an engaging discussion about the new roles schools are taking and how they are expanding their traditional mission. |
| Subject |
School-based child care -- United States.
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School-based child care. (OCoLC)fst01107940
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Added Author |
Zigler, Edward, 1930-2019.
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| Added Title |
Schools of the twenty-first century |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Finn-Stevenson, Matia. Schools of the 21st century. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607166950 |
| ISBN |
0813322464 (hard ; alk. paper) |
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9780813322469 (hard ; alk. paper) |
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0813322472 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780813322476 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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