Shaping the Preschool Agenda: Early Literacy, Public Policy, and Professional Beliefs Book

1	Making Children Ready for School: An Issue for the 1990s	1
2	Early Schooling, Literacy, and the Law	17
3	The Early Kindergarten, Readiness, and Reading	33
4	Child Care, Social Class, and the Government	53
5	Development: From Mere Description to a Moral Face	75
6	School Readiness Defined: From Mama Robin to the SATs	87
7	The Authorities on Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Dispositions, Language, and Cognitively Oriented Active Learning	103
8	Readiness for School, But What Counts as "School"? Education, Socialization, and Habilitation	121
9	Equal Opportunity for the Least of Us and Popular in the Suburbs: Public School for Four-Year-Olds	135
10	Making the Agenda: Conflicts, Windows, and Labels	143
11	Beginning Reading Materials: Are They Getting Harder?	161
12	The Shared History: Literacy, Young Children, and Early Schooling	171
	Appendix	185
	Notes	191
	References	199
	Index	219