Considerable evidence demonstrates the influence of formal schooling on women’s fertility
and child health practices, as reviewed in earlier chapters. Notwithstanding important …

How educators and researchers define and study school effectiveness continues to be shaped
by two divided camps. The policy mechanics attempt to identify particular school inputs, …

This paper examines the effects of different child-care arrangements on children's cognitive
and social proficiencies at the start of kindergarten. Using data from the Early Childhood …

… Bruce Fuller takes on the thorny issues in the field and … for organizational pluralism, Bruce
Fuller's analysis calls into question the … pre-school is going to have to quote from Fuller's book.” …

Within industrialized countries, much is known about the relationship between schools’
material inputs or social practices and pupils’ achievement levels. Less is known about school …

Young children in poor communities are spending more hours in nonparental care because
of policy reforms and expansion of early childhood programs. Studies show positive effects …

The debate about school choice continues in the absence of much data about its effects on
student achievement, or on anything else. This volume assembles such data. The papers in …

… Bruce Fuller first delves into the motivations held by politicians, … Fuller argues that the school
provides an institutional stage … Fuller advances a theory of the ‘fragile state’ where Western …

Two generations ago, Latino children and families were often defined as disadvantaged,
even “culturally deprived,” by psychologists, social scientists, and pediatric researchers. Since …

Accumulating evidence shows that young children benefit developmentally by participating
in quality child‐care centers and preschools. But we know little about which family …