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Book |
Quote/Comment
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Who's Minding the
Children?
by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels,
©1973,
page 150 |
Infant day care, although it was a regular
feature of day care centers at the turn of the century, was one of the first
kinds of care to be done away with as standards were raised.
...there remains a great deal of concern about widespread care of infants in
day care centers...
Category = History, Quality |
Who's Minding the
Children?
by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels,
©1973,
page 198 |
But in the meantime, there have been some
questions raised about whether Head Start and early education produce
anything in the way of improved cognitive performance at the primary school
level. All evidence seemed to suggest that by the end of the first grade,
children who had been in Head Start did no better on tests than children who
had not participated in such programs.
Category = Development |
Who's Minding the
Children?
by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels,
©1973,
page 202 |
Dr. Meers ends by recommending that day care
be reserved for use only by the most disadvantaged and neglected children in
the population.
Even Drs. Urie Bronfrenbrenner and Jerome Kagan...have raised questions
about our national capabilities for providing good day care--daycare
that does not divide parents and children, does not separate children and
adults, that does take a thorough look at the kind of social values it is
promoting, day care that would meet the differing needs of children...
Category = Quality |
Who's Minding the
Children?
by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels,
©1973,
page 203 |
On the (political) left, the Radical Education
Project foresees the day that a nationally controlled system of day care
would be used to force poor people into a system of slave labor while their
children were cared for in custodial day care centers.
Category = Politics |
Who's Minding the
Children?
by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels,
©1973,
page 210 |
Witness William Shannon's comments...
Are child-development centers desirable for any other children other than
the most damaged and deprived? The unpopular truth is that any community
facility--call it a day-care center or a child-development center--is at
best an inadequate, unsatisfactory substitute, and at worst a dangerous,
destructive substitute for a child's own mother.
Category = Quality |
