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Who Needs Day Care? A Look At Day Care In The 80s For Massachusetts, Margery A. Kranyik
Who Needs Day Care? A Look At Day Care In The 80s For Massachusetts, Margery A. Kranyik
Bridgewater Review
Day care has become a way of life for parents who are involved daily in the work force outside of the home. As a result, many family life styles have been altered. According to the Federal Education Annual Report The Condition of Education, the percentage of children in preschool programs has doubled since 1968, indicating the increased involvement of mothers of preschool children who are working outside of the home. The majority of these mothers are single parents. Indications are that many more mothers in the work force would seek child care if it were less expensive. Following housing, food …
Child Care In Sweden: Another Approach, Ruth A. Fitzpatrick
Child Care In Sweden: Another Approach, Ruth A. Fitzpatrick
Bridgewater Review
Day care is a far more accepted way of life in Sweden than it is in the United States. Although not every parent returns to work after the birth of a child, most do, at least part time. Swedish national child care policy helps make this possible.
An Idea Of The College, Edward W. James
An Idea Of The College, Edward W. James
Bridgewater Review
Cardinal John Henry Newman in the spring of 1852 delivered a series of lectures, eventually published as The Idea of a University, which argued against those who thought that education should be useful. These proponents of utility maintained “that Education should be confined to some particular and narrow end and should issue in some definite work” – a view, Newman observed, which they “seemed to have thought ... needed but to be proclaimed ... to be embraced.” Were Newman here today he would soon see that the issues troubling him trouble us. To be sure, we face now new slogans, …