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Because they're small, they're easy to overlook. Because their voices don't carry far, it's hard to hear them. We'd rather not look too closely or listen too carefully. And if we don't see them, maybe they'll just go away. But the invisible homeless cannot simply fly away to never-never land, or pull themselves up by their bootstraps, or make a wish upon a star. These homeless people are children, and they are not always in the inner cities, as Yvonne Vissing shows in this poignant study of families, housing, and poverty. As many as a third of our nation's homeless are found in rural and small-town America. They are all too commonly out of sight-and out of mind. Homelessness in small towns a...
Many Americans view today's problems in education as an unprecedented crisis brought on by contemporary social ills. In Learning from the Past a group of distinguished educational historians and scholars of public policy reminds us that many of our current difficulties – as well as recent reform efforts – have important historical antecedents. What can we learn, they ask, from nineteenth century efforts to promote early childhood education, or debates in the 1920s about universal secondary education, or the curriculum reforms of the 1950s? Reflecting a variety of intellectual and disciplinary orientations, the contributors to this volume examine major changes in educational development and reform and consider how such changes have been implemented in the past. They address questions of governance, equity and multiculturalism, curriculum standards, school choice, and a variety of other issues. Policy makers and other school reformers, they conclude, would do well to investigate the past in order to appreciate the implications of the present reform initiatives.
This popular guide offers future early childhood administrators all the information they will need to succeed in directing successful early childhood care programs. Its understandable format helps familiarize readers with the growth and development of children, the needs of families, and the laws and requirements for safe environments and healthy children, families, and employees. Topics include: The Needs of Children and Families; Programs for Children; Programs for Diverse Populations; Philosophy of the Center; Organizational Structure; Management of Personnel; Management of Programs, Resources, and Time; Health; Safety in Child Care; Planning Space and Purchasing Equipment; Record Keeping; and Finance and Budgeting. For early childhood administrators.
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