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8 unusual facts about Head Start


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Law of the handicap of a head start, a theory that suggests that getting an initial head start in a given area may result in being a handicap in the long-term

Operation Head Start, a Cold War operation in which B-52 Stratofortress bombers were launched and placed on rotation off Greenland and Canada

National Head Start/Public School Early Childhood Transition Demonstration Study, 1991-1999, set up in the United States to provide information on the achievements of the Head Start program for children living in poverty

Head Start Program, a program of the United States Department of Health and Human Services

Institute for Juvenile Research

Franz Alexander who was known for his work on Psychosomatic Medicine, short-term psychotherapy, and the corrective emotional experience and Julius B. Richmond, M.D. a pediatrician who would later develop Head Start and served as Surgeon General of the United States under President Jimmy Carter .

Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House

The Lessie Bates Davis Family Development Center is the site of LBDNH's day care, Pre-K, Head Start, and Migrant Head Start programs.

Luke Anthony

Shortly after he worked again for the ABC in another series Head Start, which aired in Australia and in France.

West End Community Council

A grant from the United Church of Christ and funding from the federal Head Start program allowed the Council to begin holding neighborhood festivals to celebrate local talent.


Buffett Early Childhood Fund

Partnership: Local philanthropy, Head Start and Early Head Start, schools, parents, and families work together to ensure high quality programing.

Compliance requirements

Examples of matching include the Head Start program, which requires that recipients provide 20% of the total annual expenses in either monetary or in-kind contributions.

Enfield High School

Head Start is a state sponsored program which allows young children an early start to an education.

Inge Hornstra

Other credits include medical drama series G.P., Big Sky, Murder Call, Wildside, Water Rats, Head Start, BeastMaster, and Farscape; and the television films Chameleon, which aired on UPN in 1998, BlackJack: Murder Archive and BlackJack: Ace Point Game.

James M. Hanley

During his Congressional career, Hanley was known as a liberal, and supported the Great Society program of Lyndon B. Johnson, expansion of Medicare and Head Start, and the Equal Rights Amendment.

James S. Doyle

Since then he has been a senior adviser to Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, a non-profit set up by Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's aimed at convincing the public of a need to shift 15% ($40 billion-plus) from defense procurement of Cold-War weapons to domestic programs such as child health insurance and Head Start.

Taos dialect

The Cultural Education Committee hopes to incorporate the Tiwa language into Head Start in the fall.


see also

Head Start Program

In 2011, Time magazine's columnist Joe Klein called for the elimination of Head Start, citing an internal report that the program is costly and makes a negligible impact on children's well-being over time.

Jenny Is a Good Thing, an Academy Award nominated documentary on children and nutrition produced for Project Head Start

In 1968, Head Start began funding a television program that would eventually be called Sesame Street, operated by the Carnegie Corporation Preschool Television project.

PROMIS

Program Resources and Outcome Management Information System (PROMIS) a system developed by Cleverex Systems for Head Start organizations.

Wolverine: Origins

Wolverine is briefly knocked unconscious, giving Omega Red a head start for the carbonadium, which is in Berlin.