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Headstart

US nursery-education project launched in the 1960s that aimed to boost the educational performance of children from deprived backgrounds. Early follow-up studies suggested that the results were not long-lasting, but later research indicated that the benefits of early education could be measured in terms of improved educational performance and job prospects in adult life.



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Thanks to five specially trained moms known as ``las promotoras'', or the promoters, Asia and dozens of her classmates at the Lowman Head Start program stand a good chance of having healthy smiles well into adulthood.
LEARNIN' THE DRILL: HEAD UP. MOUTH OPEN. SPIT A SMART START TO ORAL ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
House of Representatives has voted narrowly to allow religious discrimination in hiring for Head Start centers run by religious groups.
House approves 'faith-based' bias in head start program by Church & State
The author concludes that an emerging belief in the malleability of children's intelligence, the "discovery" of poverty in the early 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's energetic education agenda, and the Democratic majority that passed the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 combined to make Head Start possible.
The Birth of Head Start: Preschool Education Policies in the Kennedy ... by Education Next
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