Examines the American child care system and its inadequacies and attempts to define the needs of children of different ages

Child Care Choices

Parenting & Relationships

Zigler, Edward F.

Lang, Mary E.

Parenting

Free Press

Socialization & Personality Development (Addison-Wesley Series in Social Psychology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Child, Irvin L.

Sociology

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company

How much do children's early experiences affect their cognitive and social development? How important is the parent's role in child development? Is it possible to ameliorate or reverse the consequences of early developmental deficits? This vitally important book draws on the latest research from the social sciences and studies on the brain to answer these questions and to explore what they mean for social policy and child and family development. 
The authors affirm that sound social policy providing for safe and appropriate early care, education, health care, and parent support is critical not only for the optimal development of children, but also for strengthening families, communities, and the nation as a whole. Offering a wealth of advice and recommendations, they explain: 
-- the benefits of family leave, child care, and home visitation programs; -- the damage that child abuse inflicts; -- the vital importance of nutrition (and breast feeding) for pregnant women and young children; -- the adverse effects that occur in misguided efforts to disseminate research too early; -- and more. 
Written by experts in the field of early child development, care, and education, the book is essential reading for parents and policymakers alike.

The First Three Years and Beyond: Brain Development and Social Policy

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Finn-Stevenson, Matia

Hall, Nancy W.

Zigler, Professor Edward F.

Psychology & Counseling

Yale University Press

Recommendations for infant and toddler care and development based on current brain research and its implications How much do children’s early experiences affect their cognitive and social development? How important is the parent’s role in child development? Is it possible to ameliorate or reverse the consequences of early developmental deficits? This vitally important book draws on the latest research from the social sciences and studies on the brain to answer these questions and to explore what they mean for social policy and child and family development. The authors affirm that sound social policy providing for safe and appropriate early care, education, health care, and parent support is critical not only for the optimal development of children, but also for strengthening families, communities, and the nation as a whole. Offering a wealth of advice and recommendations, they explain: • the benefits of family leave, child care, and home visitation programs; • the damage that child abuse inflicts; • the vital importance of nutrition (and breast feeding) for pregnant women and young children; • the adverse effects that occur in misguided efforts to disseminate research too early; • and more. Written by experts in the field of early child development, care, and education, the book is essential reading for parents and policymakers alike.

The First Three Years and Beyond: Brain Development and Social Policy (Current Perspectives in Psychology)

The Tragedy of Child Care in America

Why the United States has failed to establish a comprehensive high-quality child care program is the question at the center of this book. Edward Zigler has been intimately involved in this issue since the 1970s, and here he presents a firsthand history of the policy making and politics surrounding this important debate.
Good-quality child care supports cognitive, social, and emotional development, school readiness, and academic achievement. This book examines the history of child care policy since 1969, including the inside story of America’s one great attempt to create a comprehensive system of child care, its failure, and the lack of subsequent progress. Identifying specific issues that persist today, Zigler and his coauthors conclude with an agenda designed to lead us successfully toward quality care for America’s children.

Education & Teaching

Marsland, Katherine

Lord, Heather

Schools & Teaching

Why the United States has failed to establish a comprehensive high-quality child care program is the question at the center of this book. Edward Zigler has been intimately involved in this issue since the 1970s, and here he presents a firsthand history of the policy making and politics surrounding this important debate. 
Good-quality child care supports cognitive, social, and emotional development, school readiness, and academic achievement. This book examines the history of child care policy since 1969, including the inside story of America’s one great attempt to create a comprehensive system of child care, its failure, and the lack of subsequent progress. Identifying specific issues that persist today, Zigler and his coauthors conclude with an agenda designed to lead us successfully toward quality care for America’s children.

Zigler, who has been a consultant to every administration since he helped found Head Start in the sixties, tells the behind-the-scenes story of the program's rocky course, from its beginnings as Project Rush-Rush” to today.

Head Start: The Inside Story Of America's Most Successful Education Experiment

Basic Books

This book reviews theoretical and empirical work in the developmental approach to mental retardation. Armed with methods derived from the study of typically developing children, developmentalists have recently learned about the mentally retarded child's own development in a variety of areas. These areas now encompass many aspects of cognition, language, social and adaptive functioning, as well as of maladaptive behavior and psychopathology. In addition to a focus on individuals with mental retardation themselves, familial and other "ecological" factors have influenced developmental approaches to mental retardation. Comprised of twenty-seven chapters on various aspects of development, this handbook provides a timely, comprehensive guide to understanding mental retardation and development.

Handbook of Mental Retardation and Development

Hodapp, Robert M.

Burack, Jacob A.

Mental Health

Cambridge University Press

This book reviews theoretical and empirical work in the developmental approach to mental retardation. Armed with methods derived from the study of typically developing children, developmentalists have recently learned about the mentally retarded child's own development in a variety of areas. These areas now encompass many aspects of cognition, language, social and adaptive functioning, as well as of maladaptive behavior and psychopathology. In addition to a focus on individuals with mental retardation themselves, familial and other "ecological" factors have influenced developmental approaches to mental retardation. Comprised of twenty-seven chapters on various aspects of development, this handbook provides a timely, comprehensive guide to understanding mental retardation and development.

"Children in a Changing World" is, first and foremost, a chronologically organized, research-based child development text. All the necessary topics are there--from theories in child development to the latest cognitive research. But Zigler and Finn Stevenson don't stop there. They consistently provide sound coverage of physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development in the context of the current soical conditions that affect children and families.

Children in a Changing World: Development and Social Issues

Stevenson, Matia Finn

Wadsworth Publishing

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