Anne McGill-Franzen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Reading at the State University of New York at Albany.

"The author takes one of the most important current problems in our society and links it historically in a highly skillful way. The issue with which she deals is critical." — Richard M. Clark, State University of New York at Albany

• 1. Making Children Ready for School: An Issue for the 1990s2. Early Schooling, Literacy, and the Law3. The Early Kindergarten, Readiness, and Reading4. Child Care, Social Class, and the Government5. Development: From Mere Description to a Moral Face6. School Readiness Defined: From Mama Robin to the SATs7. The Authorities on Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Dispositions, Language, and Cognitively Oriented Active Learning8. Readiness for School, But What Counts as "School"? Education, Socialization, and Habilitation9. Equal Opportunity for the Least of Us and Popular in the Suburbs: Public School for Four-Year-Olds10. Making the Agenda: Conflicts, Windows, and Labels11. Beginning Reading Materials: Are They Getting Harder?12. The Shared History: Literacy, Young Children, and Early SchoolingAppendixNotesReferencesIndex

Anne McGill-Franzen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Reading at the State University of New York at Albany.

"The author takes one of the most important current problems in our society and links it historically in a highly skillful way. The issue with which she deals is critical." — Richard M. Clark, State University of New York at Albany

• 1. Making Children Ready for School: An Issue for the 1990s2. Early Schooling, Literacy, and the Law3. The Early Kindergarten, Readiness, and Reading4. Child Care, Social Class, and the Government5. Development: From Mere Description to a Moral Face6. School Readiness Defined: From Mama Robin to the SATs7. The Authorities on Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Dispositions, Language, and Cognitively Oriented Active Learning8. Readiness for School, But What Counts as "School"? Education, Socialization, and Habilitation9. Equal Opportunity for the Least of Us and Popular in the Suburbs: Public School for Four-Year-Olds10. Making the Agenda: Conflicts, Windows, and Labels11. Beginning Reading Materials: Are They Getting Harder?12. The Shared History: Literacy, Young Children, and Early SchoolingAppendixNotesReferencesIndex

Anne McGill-Franzen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Reading at the State University of New York at Albany.

"The author takes one of the most important current problems in our society and links it historically in a highly skillful way. The issue with which she deals is critical." — Richard M. Clark, State University of New York at Albany

• 1. Making Children Ready for School: An Issue for the 1990s2. Early Schooling, Literacy, and the Law3. The Early Kindergarten, Readiness, and Reading4. Child Care, Social Class, and the Government5. Development: From Mere Description to a Moral Face6. School Readiness Defined: From Mama Robin to the SATs7. The Authorities on Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Dispositions, Language, and Cognitively Oriented Active Learning8. Readiness for School, But What Counts as "School"? Education, Socialization, and Habilitation9. Equal Opportunity for the Least of Us and Popular in the Suburbs: Public School for Four-Year-Olds10. Making the Agenda: Conflicts, Windows, and Labels11. Beginning Reading Materials: Are They Getting Harder?12. The Shared History: Literacy, Young Children, and Early SchoolingAppendixNotesReferencesIndex