Past, Present, and Future
American Prospect, The - Vol. 15 Nbr. 11, November 2004
Beatty, Barbara
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Beatty provides a brief overview of the history of preschool education in the US and discusses the significant lesson that past effort to establish a school of young children has to offer. Most successful preschool initiatives have enjoyed bipartisan support from broad-based coalitions of stakeholders from public and private sectors. Energetic, nonpartisan, politically savvy, individual policy advocates have played key roles in assembling and maintaining these coalitions, in promoting legislation, and in ensuring that programs are ultimately implemented in the interests of children.
Past, Present, and Future
THE MOVEMENT TO UNIVERsalize preschool education is not new. Americans have been attempting to get public support for educating our youngest children for more than 150 years. Why has it taken so long? What are the obstacles? And what do past successes suggest about promising strategies for the future?
In 1830, a petition to formally incorporate "infant schools" into the Boston Public Schools was rejected by the Primary School Committee. Opposing it, primary-school teachers said infant-school graduates were difficult to manage, while a mental-health specialist and child-rearing advice-givers argued that excessive early stimulation was damagin...Try vLex for FREE for 3 days
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