The Sandbox Investment: The Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics (2007)
Summary: Preschool should be a top concern for Americans because the benefits to society and the individual outweigh the expenses.
Topic: zero to five
Category: Academic Journalistic
What is it? Book
Publication Information: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2007
Author: David Kirp, Ph.D., Education Professor at UC-Berkeley
Location: Knight Library
Accessed: 2/20/2009
Sources:
James Heckman, Economist
Lawrence Schweinhart, President of High/Scope Education Research Foundation
Zell Miller, Politician from Georgia
These sources represent three advocates of universal preschool that come from different backgrounds, one in education, one in economics, and one in politics.
Audience and Agenda:
This book ranks #43,746 on Amazon.com’s sales ranking. It was written to chronicle and highlight the recent developments in the pre-kindergarten movement. The audience Kirp focuses on is policy makers and other industry insiders. He is a credible source, an education professional from Berkeley, and focuses on all aspects of the pre-k movement.
Usefulness:
This source will be useful because it is a collective summary of what the majority of my other sources focus on. It includes reference to the The Perry Preschool Study as well as my interviewee, researcher Larry Schweinhart. This source puts my subject in context and shows how it will be applied. It also discusses political issues, which is not covered in the majority of my other sources. I can use this source, which includes problems and solutions to the pre-k program, to make a quality refutation.
Works cited:
Amazon.com
http://gspp.berkeley.edu/academics/faculty/kirp.html
