| 来源类型 | Article |
| 规范类型 | 评论 |
| The New Kindergarten | |
| Douglas J. Besharov; Douglas M. Call | |
| 发表日期 | 2008-10-10 |
| 出版年 | 2008 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In her Christmas 2007 campaign ad, Hillary Clinton was shown arranging presents labeled “Universal Health Care,” “Alternative Energy,” “Bring Troops Home,” and “Middle-Class Tax Breaks.” She then paused, looking somewhat puzzled, before delivering the punch line: “Where did I put universal pre-K?” “Universal pre-K” has become a politically popular campaign cause. Clinton is no longer a candidate, of course, but Barack Obama has promised an ambitious pre-kindergarten agenda; John McCain’s advisers have hinted that he will do the same. And why not? The rhetoric surrounding preK programs is quite extraordinary: They close the achievement gap between low-income children and their more affluent peers; they prepare all children, including middle-income children, for school; and they provide financial relief to working mothers who have been paying for child care. . . . Click here to view this article as an Adobe Acrobat PDF. Douglas J. Besharov is the Joseph J. and Violet Jacobs Scholar in Social Welfare Studies at AEI. Douglas M. Call is a research associate at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. |
| 主题 | Poverty Studies |
| 标签 | besharov ; Middle class ; pre-k ; preschool |
| URL | https://www.aei.org/articles/the-new-kindergarten/ |
| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/246360 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Douglas J. Besharov,Douglas M. Call. The New Kindergarten. 2008. |
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