The good-bye window : a year in the life of a day-care center / Harriet N. Brown.

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Brown, Harriet, 1958-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English, Bulgarian Publication details: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0585071853
9780585071855
9780299158736
029915873X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Good-bye window.DDC classification:

362.71/2/09775 21

LOC classification:

HQ778.67.M33 B76 1998eb

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Contents:

Fall: The Bumblebee Room -- Winter: The Turtle Room -- Spring: The Elephant Room -- Summer: The Grasshopper Room.

Review: "Brown takes us behind the scenes at a day-care center that works. At Red Caboose, one of the oldest independent centers in the country, we meet teachers who have worked with young children for more than twenty years. We watch the child-care union and parents struggle to negotiate a contract without ripping apart the fabric of trust and love that holds the Red Caboose community together." "We investigate the center's sometimes precarious finances, to see what keeps Red Caboose going at a time when other good centers are disappearing. Best of all, we get to know the children, families, and teachers of Red Caboose - their struggles, their sorrows, their triumphs." "Brown sets her rich and engaging stories in the greater political and social context of our time. Why is so much child care bad? Why should working Americans worry about the link between welfare reform and child care? What can we learn from the history of child care?"--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-252).

Fall: The Bumblebee Room -- Winter: The Turtle Room -- Spring: The Elephant Room -- Summer: The Grasshopper Room.

"Brown takes us behind the scenes at a day-care center that works. At Red Caboose, one of the oldest independent centers in the country, we meet teachers who have worked with young children for more than twenty years. We watch the child-care union and parents struggle to negotiate a contract without ripping apart the fabric of trust and love that holds the Red Caboose community together." "We investigate the center's sometimes precarious finances, to see what keeps Red Caboose going at a time when other good centers are disappearing. Best of all, we get to know the children, families, and teachers of Red Caboose - their struggles, their sorrows, their triumphs." "Brown sets her rich and engaging stories in the greater political and social context of our time. Why is so much child care bad? Why should working Americans worry about the link between welfare reform and child care? What can we learn from the history of child care?"--Jacket.

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