The latest in Head Start Programs

Getting A 'Head Start' On Obesity Prevention

2010-02-23T17:44:21Z

<div id="subtitle">Early childhood program waging war on obesity among high-risk children</div><div><p>The nearly one million preschool kids enrolled in Head Start are getting more than just a leg up on the learning process.</p><p>A study by Temple University researchers finds the program also goes above and beyond the current federal recommendatio...

STIMULUS WATCH: Salary raise counted as saved job

2010-02-24T11:18:44Z

<div id="subtitle">STIMULUS WATCH: Salary raises counted as saved jobs; 2 out of 3 Head Start jobs overcounted</div><div><p>The government's latest count of stimulus jobs significantly overstates the effects of the $787 billion program under a popular federal preschool program, raising fresh questions about the process the Obama administration is using to tout the success of its econom...

Out of fields, into class for migrant kids

2010-02-25T01:49:33Z

<div id="subtitle">Out of the fields, into classrooms: New funds but long waiting lists to educate migrant kids</div><div><p>Elizabeth Pineda climbs out from bed, her 4-year-old son Adrian asleep nearby. She lays out a tiny pair of shorts and a white T-shirt for his first day of school, gathers her purse and tiptoes outside. Her cousin will get the boy up and off to class in a few hours.</p><p>It is 4 a.m. and on...

Migrant kids take long step from fields to schools

2010-02-25T01:54:21Z

<div id="subtitle">Out of the fields, into classrooms: New funds aim to educate more migrant children</div><div><p>Elizabeth Pineda climbs out of bed, her 4-year-old son Adrian asleep nearby. She lays out a tiny pair of shorts and a white T-shirt for his first day of school, gathers her purse and tiptoes outside. Her cousin will get the boy up and off to class in a few hours.</p><p>It is 4 a.m. and only a few sol...

New day for education

2010-03-01T00:44:54Z

<div id="subtitle">Obama’s nomination of Chicago’s schools chief is a good step toward improved learning</div><div><p> How a person has performed in the past is an excellent indication of how that person will perform in the future. Which means education in this country has a promising outlook if the Senate confirms President-elect Barack Obama<...

Predictors of Parent Involvement in Preschool

2010-03-02T11:49:52Z

<div><p>Books and Papers</p><p>FAMILY INVOLVEMENT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: Research Into Practice. Jennifer Prior &amp; Maureen R. Gerard. 2007. 316 pp. (Available from: Delmar Thomson Publishing, Clifton Park, NY.) The authors emphasize the differences among American families today and suggest taking into con...

Head Start meets big need

2010-02-27T22:03:15Z

<div id="subtitle">With kids in program for full days, parents have better shot at creating stable family life</div><div><p> The schedule would have been impossible for most people, but it was set by a dedicated mother.</p><p>For two years, Arelly Meneses Pedraza cleaned offices from 4 p.m. to 3 a.m., rushed home for three hours of rest and rose at 7 to take her preschool-age daughter Karen to a Head Start progra...

Former surgeon general, Head Start director dies

2010-03-04T03:42:51Z

<div id="subtitle">Julius Richmond, former surgeon general and Head Start director, dies at 91</div><div><p>Dr. Julius Richmond, the U.S. surgeon general in the Carter administration who issued a massive report labeling cigarette smoking "slow-motion suicide," has died. He was 91.</p><p>Richmond...