The Effect Of The Head Start Program On Childrens Cognitive Development
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Author |
: Michael J. Puma |
Publisher |
: Nova Novinka |
Total Pages |
: 314 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015066779201 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Head Start Impact by : Michael J. Puma
Since its beginning in 1965 as a part of the War on Poverty, Head Start's goal has been to boost the school readiness of low-income children. Based on a 'whole child' model, the program provides comprehensive services that include pre-school education; medical, dental, and mental health care; nutrition services; and efforts to help parents foster their child's development. Head Start services are designed to be responsive to each child's and family's ethnic, cultural, and linguistic heritage. The Congressionally-mandated Head Start Impact Study was conducted across 84 nationally representative grantee/delegate agencies. Approximately 5,000 newly entering 3- and 4-year-old children applying for Head Start were randomly assigned to either a Head Start group that had access to Head Start program services or to a non- Head Start group that could enrol in available community non-Head Start services, selected by their parents. Data collection began in fall 2002 and is scheduled to continue through 2006, following children through the spring of their 1st-grade year. The study quantifies the impact of Head Start separately for 3- and 4-year-old children across child cognitive, social-emotional, and health domains as well as ii on parenting practices. This book is essential reading for those in the education field.
Author |
: National Research Council |
Publisher |
: National Academies Press |
Total Pages |
: 587 |
Release |
: 2015-07-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780309324885 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0309324882 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 by : National Research Council
Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progress, and the adults who provide for the care and the education of young children bear a great responsibility for their health, development, and learning. Despite the fact that they share the same objective - to nurture young children and secure their future success - the various practitioners who contribute to the care and the education of children from birth through age 8 are not acknowledged as a workforce unified by the common knowledge and competencies needed to do their jobs well. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 explores the science of child development, particularly looking at implications for the professionals who work with children. This report examines the current capacities and practices of the workforce, the settings in which they work, the policies and infrastructure that set qualifications and provide professional learning, and the government agencies and other funders who support and oversee these systems. This book then makes recommendations to improve the quality of professional practice and the practice environment for care and education professionals. These detailed recommendations create a blueprint for action that builds on a unifying foundation of child development and early learning, shared knowledge and competencies for care and education professionals, and principles for effective professional learning. Young children thrive and learn best when they have secure, positive relationships with adults who are knowledgeable about how to support their development and learning and are responsive to their individual progress. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 offers guidance on system changes to improve the quality of professional practice, specific actions to improve professional learning systems and workforce development, and research to continue to build the knowledge base in ways that will directly advance and inform future actions. The recommendations of this book provide an opportunity to improve the quality of the care and the education that children receive, and ultimately improve outcomes for children.
Author |
: Adele Harrell |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 154 |
Release |
: 1983 |
ISBN-10 |
: OSU:32435013295340 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Effect of the Head Start Program on Children's Cognitive Development by : Adele Harrell
Author |
: Edward Zigler |
Publisher |
: Brookes Publishing Company |
Total Pages |
: 600 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015058866297 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Head Start Debates by : Edward Zigler
The first book to capture the debates surrounding Head Start in all their complexity and diversity, this landmark volume will help readers understand the role of these controversies in the program's past and their influence on its future. Two Head Start experts bring together the research and personal experience of leaders in a wide range of fields, including education, research, medicine, and social work. This powerful compilation of voices mines Head Start's history for mistakes made and lessons learned, presents a multifaceted view of where the program should be headed, and offers contrasting viewpoints on three major issues: Goals. Explores different opinions about three ways of thinking about Head Start's goals: cognitive development versus school readiness/social competence, short-term versus long-term progress, and antipoverty tool versus child development program. Effectiveness. Presents views on the impact of Head Start on children's school readiness and success, health, and family functioning -- and discusses how research might be improved so outcomes in these areas can be more meaningfully assessed. Future directions. Explains positions on where Head Start should be headed as it approaches its fifth decade. Opinions are offered on quality improvement, the timing and duration of early intervention, administrative changes, and Head Start's capacity for meeting child care needs and expanding access to preschool services. This comprehensive, forward-thinking book will help readers understand the complexity of Head Start, clarify the multiple sides of the debates that have long surrounded it, and shape effective social policy for America's most at-risk children and their families. Book jacket.
Author |
: Guyonne Kalb$aut$!3584296411 |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 43 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:845040254 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reading to Young Children by : Guyonne Kalb$aut$!3584296411
Author |
: National Research Council |
Publisher |
: National Academies Press |
Total Pages |
: 610 |
Release |
: 2000-11-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780309069885 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0309069882 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis From Neurons to Neighborhoods by : National Research Council
How we raise young children is one of today's most highly personalized and sharply politicized issues, in part because each of us can claim some level of "expertise." The debate has intensified as discoveries about our development-in the womb and in the first months and years-have reached the popular media. How can we use our burgeoning knowledge to assure the well-being of all young children, for their own sake as well as for the sake of our nation? Drawing from new findings, this book presents important conclusions about nature-versus-nurture, the impact of being born into a working family, the effect of politics on programs for children, the costs and benefits of intervention, and other issues. The committee issues a series of challenges to decision makers regarding the quality of child care, issues of racial and ethnic diversity, the integration of children's cognitive and emotional development, and more. Authoritative yet accessible, From Neurons to Neighborhoods presents the evidence about "brain wiring" and how kids learn to speak, think, and regulate their behavior. It examines the effect of the climate-family, child care, community-within which the child grows.
Author |
: W. Steven Barnett |
Publisher |
: State University of New York Press |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 1998-03-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780791495810 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0791495817 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Early Care and Education for Children in Poverty by : W. Steven Barnett
Barnett and Boocock present a multi-disciplinary assessment of the long-term outcomes of early care and education in the United States and abroad. Innovative new research, together with up-to-date, comprehensive reviews, provide lessons for the design of early childhood programs, policies, and research. Contributors from the fields of education, psychology, sociology, and economics address questions about the causal relationships through which early childhood programs produce their long-term effects, the characteristics of effective early childhood programs, how nations respond to the global social and economic trends that are changing the lives of children and their families everywhere, child care's effects on maternal labor force participation, the potential and perils of welfare reform, and the implications of national economic and political structures for early care and education policies. A unique feature of the book is its attention to the practical problems of conducting research to support public policy development, translating research results into public policy, and improving communication between researchers and policy makers. The research presented in this important volume clearly establishes that early care and education can permanently improve the lives of children in poverty, provides research-based recommendations for achieving that goal through public policy, and sets an agenda for future research on early care and education's long-term outcomes.
Author |
: Ruth Hubbell McKey |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 398 |
Release |
: 1985 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000038603217 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Impact of Head Start on Children, Families, and Communities by : Ruth Hubbell McKey
Author |
: National Research Council |
Publisher |
: National Academies Press |
Total Pages |
: 464 |
Release |
: 2001-01-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780309068369 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0309068363 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Eager to Learn by : National Research Council
Clearly babies come into the world remarkably receptive to its wonders. Their alertness to sights, sounds, and even abstract concepts makes them inquisitive explorersâ€"and learnersâ€"every waking minute. Well before formal schooling begins, children's early experiences lay the foundations for their later social behavior, emotional regulation, and literacy. Yet, for a variety of reasons, far too little attention is given to the quality of these crucial years. Outmoded theories, outdated facts, and undersized budgets all play a part in the uneven quality of early childhood programs throughout our country. What will it take to provide better early education and care for our children between the ages of two and five? Eager to Learn explores this crucial question, synthesizing the newest research findings on how young children learn and the impact of early learning. Key discoveries in how young children learn are reviewed in language accessible to parents as well as educators: findings about the interplay of biology and environment, variations in learning among individuals and children from different social and economic groups, and the importance of health, safety, nutrition and interpersonal warmth to early learning. Perhaps most significant, the book documents how very early in life learning really begins. Valuable conclusions and recommendations are presented in the areas of the teacher-child relationship, the organization and content of curriculum, meeting the needs of those children most at risk of school failure, teacher preparation, assessment of teaching and learning, and more. The book discusses: Evidence for competing theories, models, and approaches in the field and a hard look at some day-to-day practices and activities generally used in preschool. The role of the teacher, the importance of peer interactions, and other relationships in the child's life. Learning needs of minority children, children with disabilities, and other special groups. Approaches to assessing young children's learning for the purposes of policy decisions, diagnosis of educational difficulties, and instructional planning. Preparation and continuing development of teachers. Eager to Learn presents a comprehensive, coherent picture of early childhood learning, along with a clear path toward improving this important stage of life for all children.
Author |
: R. Shep Melnick |
Publisher |
: Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2018-03-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780815732402 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0815732406 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Transformation of Title IX by : R. Shep Melnick
One civil rights-era law has reshaped American society—and contributed to the country's ongoing culture wars Few laws have had such far-reaching impact as Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Intended to give girls and women greater access to sports programs and other courses of study in schools and colleges, the law has since been used by judges and agencies to expand a wide range of antidiscrimination policies—most recently the Obama administration’s 2016 mandates on sexual harassment and transgender rights. In this comprehensive review of how Title IX has been implemented, Boston College political science professor R. Shep Melnick analyzes how interpretations of "equal educational opportunity" have changed over the years. In terms accessible to non-lawyers, Melnick examines how Title IX has become a central part of legal and political campaigns to correct gender stereotypes, not only in academic settings but in society at large. Title IX thus has become a major factor in America's culture wars—and almost certainly will remain so for years to come.