Annual editions : early childhood education 04/05 / editors, Karen Menke Paciorek, Joyce Huth Munro - 25th ed. - Iowa : McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, c2004. - xviii, 205p. : ill. ; 27cm. - (The Annual Editions Series) .

Includes bibliography and index


This book brings you the latest information in the field from a wide variety of recent journals, newspapers, and magazines ... There are three themes found in [the] readings chosen ... They are: (1)the great attention being focused on the health, especially the weight and diet, of young children in America today, (2) the importance of appropriate early childhood programs being available for children, and (3) the vast amount of research that supports the need for quality early childhood programs for all children, but especially children at risk

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Early childhood education -- United States. Child development. Child rearing -- United States.

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