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Author Kirp, David L.

Title Kids first : five big ideas for transforming children's lives and America's future / David L. Kirp.

Imprint New York : PublicAffairs, ©2011.

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Location Call No. Status
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  371.2 KI    Check Shelf
Edition 1st ed.
Description xiii, 270 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-258) and index.
Note On cover, the word "first" is spelled with a "1" instead of an "i."
Summary Kirp clarifies the importance of our investing wisely in children, and offers accounts of five big cradle-to-college initiatives that can change the arc of all children's lives.
Contents Introduction: From crib to college -- The littlest schoolhouse: teaching parents to teach their kids -- A garden of earthly delights: delivering brainy education to tots -- All together now: creating academies of learning and life -- The kindness of strangers: offering kids a helping hand -- The universal piggy bank: giving every child a nest egg -- The smart politics of the heart -- Appendix: A kids-first budget.
Subject Preschool teaching -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Early childhood education -- United States -- Anecdotes.
School children -- United States -- Attitudes.
Early childhood education. (OCoLC)fst00900596
Preschool teaching. (OCoLC)fst01075632
School children -- Attitudes. (OCoLC)fst01107152
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Teaching -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Early childhood education -- United States -- Anecdotes.
School children -- Attitudes -- United States.
Genre/Form Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
Anecdotes.
Cover Title Kids f1rst
ISBN 9781586489472 (hbk.)
158648947X (hbk.)
9781610391030 (pbk.)
1610391039 (pbk.)
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