Head Start

Research for Head Start has found many lasting benefits for learning and educational achievement for its attendees. Including school progress and educational attainment, social behavior, and reduction of delinquency and crime that is usually found within disadvantaged families. Head Start addresses all the guidelines within the Family Impact checklist on providing all adequate services to low income families. As mentioned above, under Family Support and Responsibilities, Head Start is a federally funded program, which also receives donations and grants. Therefore, the federal government must increase funding to the Head Start program so children from low-income families, get early education services to help them succeed in school. Since Head Start programs have minimal funding there are not enough spots available to include every child in need of the services provided by this program, especially within certain regions.

The key to validity and reliability in a data collection is to keep in mind the school or organization's obligations to the students, parents and the community. Keeping your customers (students & parents) the main priority ensures the organization's dedication and quality of services delivered to the community. Parent and community participation will increase the feedback of parents (whether negative or positive) to contribute on implementing the program and revisions the Head start education program which results in reliable feedback. Data collection for employee development will rely on the performance of students in the classroom and how they achieve and succeed with the Head start education

Head Start promotes the idea of learning through adult lead instruction and play along with exposure to the concepts of literacy, math and science.

The program, currently delivered by about 1,700 local organizations – public and private, non-profit and for-profit – provides preschoolers with comprehensive services, such as education and health screenings, with the goal of building their skills across five school readiness domains: language and literacy, cognition and general knowledge, approaches to learning, physical development and health, and social and emotional development. Head Start encourages the role of parents (both mothers and fathers) as their child's first and most important teachers. Programs build relationships with families that support positive parent-child relationships, family well-being, and connections to peers and community. Early Head Start, also managed by the federal Office of Head Start, is directed toward children up to the age of three and their parents. While the program is federally funded and managed, local agencies make decisions regarding service delivery based on the specific needs of their communities; for example, some may opt to include home-based services for families in their programs. Most states have multiple Head Start programs providing services for

Head Start is one of the many programs started by President Lyndon B. Johnson to fight the war on poverty in which he signed the economic opportunity act of 1964 that opened the nation to Head Start and other programs that helped low income neighborhoods, According to President Johnson “We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors (Kelly, 2016). The head Start program started out as a summer program mainly run by the office of economic director Sargent Shriver. During the summer of 1964 the nation was confronted by a surplus. Shriver asked himself what would be the best way to use this money. He then set up a research team that developed a pie chart that showed great disparity against low income families especially children. He noticed that out of thirty million poor people in the nation half were children so he decided that he must come up with a program to help children. Mr. Shriver stated “It was clear that it was foolish to talk about a total war against poverty, if you were doing nothing about children” (Zigler, 1992). Head Start, this huge program that has been serving families for over fifty years was born out of a surplus. The main goal of Shriver was to solve three problems at once: He wanted use of public schools that were closed for the summer, he wanted teachers to be employed for the summer and he wanted to introduce poor children to the school environment

Researchers have implemented the social policies which are aimed to improve children’s welfare and to assist them in gaining their full potential. Head Start and Sure Start programmes started in USA and UK aimed at eliminating the worst social and cognitive deficits that occurs because of neglect and poverty in early childhood.

Through leadership, advocacy and collaborative partnerships the Head Start Program provides high quality, comprehensive services for children and families to achieve self-sufficiency. It seems they recognize and value high quality and excellence, personal and professional development, parent participation and shared governance, individual and collective achievement, the well being of their employees, mutual partnerships, and most importantly team work for the children, families, staff and community.

In this particular study Sabol and Chase-Lansdale (2015) examined if children’s participation in Head Start was increasing parents’ educational advancement. The study included data from over 4,000 three to four-year-old children attending Head Start. It was determined that the three-year-old parents that were examined had better chances in there growth of educational attainment (Sabol and Chase-Lansdale, 2015); Even though, this study gained interest to surroundings areas it is still questionable if Head Start helps increase the parents ability to return or start school. Head start is and has been a sustainable program that has helped build millions of intelligent young children. The program provides comprehensive services such as: Early childhood

The Head Start program contributes to early successful learning and contributes to overcoming youth’s educational setbacks. It prepares children from low-income families for elementary school and beyond. The children enrolled in this program are giving a better opportunity to succeed in school. In order to prepare a child for success in school, the program has to meet educational, health, social needs for every pupil. In addition, the program includes special services for those who qualify. In this specific study, researchers try and find out if former Head Start students that received special education in preschool transferred to kindergarten with the same services.

The developmental years before children reach the age of kindergarten are very critical in affecting lasting cognitive and social-emotional growth. The occurrences the children have during this time period help structure their futures and have lasting effects on the contributions they make to society later in life. Many children during this time period do not experience quality cognitive and social- emotional occurrences due to poverty or other conditions detrimental to healthy development. Since high quality early child development programs have shown that they can and do make a difference in how children learn and are able to prepare for and proceed in school, it is essential that children in high-risk groups for failure participate in these programs. In this paper, I will discuss the characteristics that make up a high quality early educational program, the benefits of early childhood and a federally funded program called Head Start.

Paula’s Head Start class promotes high expectations for learning success. To promote high expectations for learning success, Mrs. Paula focuses on the students social and emotional goals, language and literacy goals, cognition and general knowledge goal and physical well-being and motor development goals. For social and emotional goals, Mrs. Paula expects that students will learn how to engage and maintain an appropriate adult-child relationship and peer relationships. In addition, Mrs. Paula looks forward to building the child's confidence in their abilities and developing the child sense of self. When referring to the students language and literacy goal, the student will build and use complex vocabulary and identify the sounds in words. Next, students are expected to count, identify patterns, problem solve, make predictions and develop a hypothesis when Mrs. Pau.la focuses on cognition and general knowledge goals. Lastly, Mrs. Paula promotes high expectation for learning success through physical well-being and motor skills. Students are expected to demonstrate control of their large and small muscle movement like balance, writing, building, self-care and manipulation. Overall, Mrs. Paula looks for new and innovating ways to push her students to strive for greatness and explore the

What are the goals of Early Head Start? The goals or priorities of this is to provide safe and developmentally enriching caregiving. To support parent, mother and father, in the role as primary caregivers. The teaching of the children, and family in meeting personal goals. Being able to successfully achieve self sufficiency across a wide variety of domains. Communities being mobilized to provide proper resources and environment that is necessary. But also, to ensure the provision of high quality responsive services for the family. The idea of this topic, is to show the types of things that should be looked for when choosing a child care center. When choosing a child care center for whom it may involve it

The Head Start is a comprehensive program offered by local agencies in each county in Pennsylvania. The program helps preschool students who are considered low-income children and aged from ages birth to five years old through many services such as developmental early childhood education, medical examinations and treatment, as well as getting a hot nutritious meal every day. The program includes all the needs of children and their families that follow to federal standards.

Head Start and Early Head Start are federally funded programs that are operated by local entities. Early Head Start programs are available to the family until the child turns 3 years old and is ready to transition into Head Start or another pre-K program. Early Head Start helps families care for their infants and toddlers through early, continuous, intensive, and comprehensive services (About Head Start,2011). These programs help elevate the cost of daycare and frees up parents so they can go back to school or

In the article we reviewed what is known about Head Start and argue that the program is likely to generate benefits to participants and society as a whole that are large enough to justify the program’s costs. Although in principle there could be more beneficial ways of deploying Head Start resources, the benefits of such changes remain uncertain and there is some downside risk.