Head Start in the 1980's: Review and Recommendations ; a Report Requested by the President of the United States

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Human Development Services, Administration for Children, Youth, and Families, Head Start Bureau, 1980 - Children with social disabilities - 60 pages
 

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Page 16 - States and other modern nations should be ready for an experimental approach to social reform, an approach in which we try out new programs designed to cure specific social problems, in which we learn whether or not these programs are effective, and in which we retain, imitate, modify, or discard them on the basis of apparent effectiveness on the multiple imperfect criteria available. Our readiness for this stage is indicated by the inclusion of specific provisions for program evaluation in the first...
Page 56 - A REPORT TO THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES on the OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT Surveys and Investigations Staff...
Page 56 - Early childhood and family development programs improve the quality of life for low-income families.
Page 30 - ... Similarly, due primarily to budgetary constraints. Head Start services have not been able to keep pace with the increase in single-parent and two-parent working families. Full-day Head Start programs have declined from about onethird of the participating programs in 1972 to about 15 percent in 1979. In other words, Head Start has been moving away from meeting the day care needs of the working poor at the very time that the labor force participation of women with preschool children has been increasingly...
Page 22 - According to Head Start regional directors, Boards of Education frequently are rejected or do not even apply to be Head Start grantees because they do not think they can conform to Head Start's parent participation guidelines.
Page ii - At least one teacher in every Head Start classroom should be required to have a nationally recognized credential in child development, such as the Child Development Associate (CDA).
Page 4 - ... percent of Head Start's national enrollment consist of handicapped children. In fiscal year 1976, $20 million was appropriated by Congress for this program. Head Start has successfully carried out the congressional mandate, and handicapped children in Head Start now receive the full range of Head Start services, as well as services tailored to their special needs. In cooperation with the Office of Education's Bureau of Education for the Handicapped, Head Start has funded a network of fourteen...
Page 2 - CPCC) were established to provide comprehensive services for economically disadvantaged families who have one or more children under the age of three.

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