False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers Stockstill Casey
False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers Stockstill Casey An inside look at the racial and class divides between Head Start and private pre-K classrooms for children and their familiesThe…
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False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers Stockstill Casey
An inside look at the racial and class divides between Head Start and private pre-K classrooms for children and their familiesThe benefits of preschool have been part of our national conversation since the 1960s, when Head Start, a publicly funded preschool program for low-income children, began. Yet, as Casey Stockstill shows, two-thirds of American preschools are segregated--concentrating primarily poor children of color or affluent white children in separate schools. In the past two decades, forty-four states have expanded access to preschool, often citing preschool as an anti-poverty policy.
Madison, like many other small and medium cities in the United States, is Stockstill argues that, as a result, segregated preschools entrench rather than disrupt inequality.Stockstill spent two years observing children and teachers at two preschools in Madison, Wisconsin.