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The Good-bye Window : A Year in the Life of a Day-Care Center by Harriet N. Brown; Harriet Brown is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Good-bye Window : A Year in the Life of a Day-Care Center about?

Have you ever wondered what really goes on at your child’s day-care center after you say good-bye? Harriet Brown did. To satisfy her curiosity, she spent an entire year observing Red Caboose, a center in Madison, Wisconsin. This engaging and thought-provoking book is the story of that year. In her beautifully written personal account, journalist and mother 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 look at the center’s 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. Started twenty-five years ago by a group of idealistic parents, the center has not only survived but thrived through some pretty tough times. In the world of day care, Red Caboose is a spec

Who reads The Good-bye Window : A Year in the Life of a Day-Care Center?

Author

Harriet N. Brown; Harriet Brown

Publisher

University of Wisconsin Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780299158736

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Family & Relationships, Education, Gender Studies