Tag Archives: Preschool education
Education and Inequalities in the U.S. (Sean Reardon)
Sean Reardon is a professor at Stanford University. This piece appeared in the Boston Review, December 1, 2011. Education has long been the primary pathway to social mobility in the United States. The American Dream—the idea that one’s family origin … Continue reading
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Preschools in China, Japan, and the U.S.
I recently read an unusual study of preschools in three nations. In 1989, Joseph Tobin and colleagues published their book Preschools in Three Cultures: Japan, China, and the United States. What is unusual is that Joseph Tobin, an anthropologist put … Continue reading
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