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CCSD Head Start promotes school readiness and provides family engagement services for children and families in Charleston County. Head Start engages parents in their children’s learning and helps them make progress towards their own educational and career goals. ...
Although interest in this question dates back more than 30 years to the inception of compensatory early childhood programs (e.g. Head Start), its importance has grown in recent years as accumulating evidence has revealed that children’s performance during the primary scho...
The goal of the issue is to further delineate how aspects of programs as well as family and contextual factors are implicated in the impact of Early Head Start on school readiness and parenting. The 4 sets of authors address the complex interplay of program, child, and family factors in ...
Children’s transition to kindergarten and their skills at school entry forecast long-term school success.1,2 In the United States, the primary objective of Goals 2000 set by the National Education Goals Panel was “to ensure that all children enter school ready to learn”.3 Nearly two decades...
Educators shared the belief that the Head Start program was attentive to families’ needs in the community and gave children the skills needed to succeed in school. They commended Head Start’s multidisciplinary approach to fulfilling families’ goals in education, healthcare, dental care, mental ...
In order to partner with families to set and achieve their goals, home visitors must both build and maintain a positive working relationship with each parent. Prior research has identified multiple factors that impact parental engagement in home visiting programs, related to the parent, the home ...
Enhancing School Readiness: The Early Head Start Model The article describes an Early Head Start (EHS) education program in Rhode Island. Master's degree social workers play a key role in helping address the goals of EHS. The social, emotional, and behavioral development of children has been....
As children enter Pre-K and fifth grade, the effects of Early Head Start fade out and the scores of the two groups do not show statistically significant differences. The services that showed the greatest impact for children's school readiness are center care and parents reading to children.Ha...
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