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Afterword: Child Care and Preschool Education--Catherine E. Snow
Pages 27-30

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From page 27...
... How much should those curricula focus on content and how much on process? Unfortunately, discussions related to the first strand, including consideration of financing, minimal licensing standards, and the schedules for care, tend to surround the child care settings serving the poorest families -- families leaving welfare, families in which parents are working at low-income jobs, and families that have few resources of time, money, or knowledge to use in preparing their children for school.
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From page 28...
... This split between care and education, between logistical and educational issues, between policies for child safety and those for child development is one we can only deplore. Experience in child care, preschool, or prekindergarten has been shown, in an analysis of the data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Kindergarten Study, to relate to later child outcomes in both literacy and math (Magnuson, Meyers, Ruhm, and Waldvogel, 2004)
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From page 29...
... AFTERWORD: CHILD CARE AND PRESCHOOL EDUCATION 29 much on their own. Adults worried about the availability and financing of child care need to work with adults worried about education to convert care settings for preschoolers into rich opportunities for them to talk and learn about the worlds of science and math.
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