This book lays out a bold but thoughtful vision of the role and scope of schools in the new millennium. It discusses efforts to link child care and education, as exemplified by the Schools of the 21st Century program, and also discusses the changes in family life.

Matia Finn-Stevenson, a research scientist at Yale, is director of the School of the 21st Century and associate director of the Bush centre in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale University, where Edward Zigler, Sterling Professor of Psychology, is director. Zigler and Finn-Stevenson also coauthored Children in a Changing World: Development and Social Issues (1993).

The Realities of Family Life -- Remaking Schools to Fit Families' Needs -- Linking Child Care and Education: The Research Base -- Schools' Role in the Provision of Nonacademic Support Services: The Debate -- Implementation -- Program Funding -- Evaluation -- What's Ahead