Kids First Five Big Ideas for Transforming Children's Lives and America's Future

by Kirp, David

• ISBN13: 9781610391030
• ISBN10: 1610391039
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-10
• Publisher: PublicAffairs

Summary

While parents work longer hours for less and the costs of childcare, healthcare, and college skyrocket, the share of the U.S. budget spent on kids has fallen 22 percent since 1960. In Kids First, policy expert David Kirp issues a visionary call for renewing, revamping, and reenergizing public support for children, and offers inspiring, on-the-ground accounts of five big cradle-to-college initiatives that can change the arc of all children's lives.

Author Biography

David L. Kirp, a professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. His previous books include Shakespeare, Einstein, and The Bottom Line.

Table of Contents

A Note from the Author	p. ix
Introduction: From Crib to College	p. 1
The Littlest Schoolhouse	p. 21
Teaching Parents to Teach Their Kids
A Garden of Earthly Delights	p. 59
Delivering Brainy Education to Tots
Alltogether Now	p. 105
Creating Academies of Learning and Life
The Kindness of Strangers	p. 141
Offering Kids a Helping Hand
The Universal Piggy Bank	p. 173
Giving Every Child a Nest Egg
The Smart Politics of the Heart	p. 193
Appendix: A Kids-First Budget	p. 213
Acknowledgments	p. 223
Notes	p. 227
Index	p. 257
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