Casey Stockstill’s False Starts (New York University Press, 2023) is a book that should be on the reading list of early childhood teachers, administrators, parents of infants and toddlers, educators of early childhood teachers, federal and local education policy makersin short if you are a stakeholder in early childhood education, this book is for you to thoughtfully consider. Stockstill’s ethnographic work at two preschool sites in Madison, Wisconsin, a Head Start location and a private school, is undertaken with an asset-based research modelshe notes the excellence of both schools in the introduction and continues to identify ways in which each school is caring for children they teachis refreshing. The reader is invited to understand the opportunities offered at each site for children, while holding in tension the historic and systemic issues at play in preschool education and the socio-political decisions that are the cause of segregation in each of the...

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