An Equal Start?: Providing Quality Early Education And Care For Disadvantaged Children (Case Studies On Poverty, Place And Policy)

Early childhood education and care has become a central policy concern in many countries, and as services expand it is crucial to examine whether children from disadvantaged backgrounds receive equitable services. In An Equal Start? experts from eight countries examine how early education and care is organized, funded, and regulated in their respective countries. They give up-to-date pictures of access to services by different groups, providing rich insights into how policies play out in practice and the effects on the provision of services to disadvantaged children. Together they reveal a number of common tensions and complexities that many countries face in ensuring that early education and care is affordable, accessible, and of the highest possible quality.

• • Author: Ludovica Gambaro, Kitty Stewart, Jane Waldfogel
• • Publisher: Policy Press
• • Publication Date: Feb 01, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 272 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1447310519
• • ISBN-13: 9781447310518