The Sandbox Investment

The Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics

David L. Kirp

  • 2007 PSP Award for Excellence, Education Category, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers
  • San Francisco Chronicle A Best Book of the Year

Introduction: Before School

1. Small Miracles

2. Life Way After Preschool

3. The Futures Market

4. The Imprimatur of Science

5. Who Cares for the Children?

6. Jump-Starting a Movement

7. The Politics of the Un-Dramatic

8. English Lessons

9. Kids-First Politics

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: The Sandbox Investment
  • A photo of the author

David L. Kirp is Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of fourteen books, most recently Almost Home: America's Love-Hate Relationship with Community.