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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Head Start Program"”.
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Inclusion in Context: Teachers Perspectives in Head Start Program
… teachers have inservice trainings, and how the programs' policy, legal enforcement, and societal demands influence each DSC's attitudes and beliefs about inclusion, construct their own strategies to cope with difficult inclusive situations, and identify their primary roles as a DSC. This study …
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Assessing the Parent Involvement Component of a Head Start Program
Head Start, a federally funded preschool program that provides a diverse array of services to children ages three to five years, strongly emphasizes the importance of parent involvement in its program. The purpose of the present study was to examine Head Start parents' perceptions of the parent …
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Policies from practice: The stories of the Whitewater Head Start program
This study explored how the Whitewater Head Start staff defined, interpreted and implemented policies. For two years the author joined the four-member staff as a volunteer in a rural, and recently relocated, Minnesota Head Start program. The study utilized short stories about the mundane daily …
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Prevention of Overweight in Children Enrolled in the Head Start Program Through Nutrition Education Directed at Teachers and Parents
… project and to develop nutrition education program for parents of children enrolled in Head Start school. The HMHC curriculum was adapted from Iowa State Extension ""Pick a Better Snack"" program. In 2005, Head Start teachers received HMHC in-service training and were provided with a set of …
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Evaluation Working Within and Challenging Performance Measurement Systems: An Example With the National Reporting System and on -Going Child Assessments in a Local Head Start Program
… of performance measurement as a means to judge program quality. The main goal of this study was to consider how evaluators can practice their craft in relation to performance measurement systems, particularly how evaluators can assist local programs in using performance measurement systems. This …
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“We have to learn how to transition with our children”: Parenting practices that promote school readiness among low-income black families in a head start program
… by making use of the tools available, such as Head Start programming. Lastly, mothers provide policy and practice recommendations to support families during the transition from preschool to kindergarten. Findings from this study produce descriptive data (i.e. the written words, spoken words, or …
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Nutrients Analysis of Preschool Lunch Menus in Virginia
… for their young children in child development programs. In June 1997, Child and Adult Food Program (CACFP) served nearly 2.2 million children and provided meals to 2.6 million children in March 1998. A large number of children eat at least one and sometimes two or more of their meals at child …
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Developmental outcome in preschoolers: Interrelations among maternal depression, perceived social support, and child's age of entry into Head Start
… developed to explore whether age of entry into a Head Start Program moderated the relationship between maternal depressive symptomology and child cognitive and social outcome. In addition, the mediating role of maternal social support was examined. The study sample included 43 low-income mothers …
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Our Lives, Our Stories: A Study of Parental Involvement
… research study was conducted at the Blue Island Head Start Center. The study included interviewing parents, teachers, and Head Start staff concerning parental involvement. The Blue Island Head Start program differs from the Champaign program in two distinctive ways: the program has an established …
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Exploration into the head start fade phenomenon
<p>The Head Start fade effect, documented since the 1970s, finds that students who make gains in I.Q. and social skills in the Head Start program later see those positive effects diminish in the early years of schooling and disappear altogether by the end of third grade. The hypothesis proposed in …
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Culturally Responsive Policy In An Urban HeadStart Program
… enhancing cultural responsiveness in an urban Head Start program. By increasing awareness of culturally responsiveness and providing on-going professional development and resources, the policy will have a significant impact on ensuring that staff are prepared and supported in the implementation …
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A Qualitative Study of Stakeholder Perceptions in Early Childhood Intervention Partnership
… in their lives. Early childhood intervention programs serve to empower parents to meet that need.</p><p>The literature has identified the challenges and opportunities of working with highly stressed, at-risk families and children and there has been much focus on understanding what increases …
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Head Start Transition to Elementary School: Is the Early Intervention Sustained?
… all play a role in developmental outcomes. Head Start is an early intervention program designed to address the unique needs of students from poverty. The Head Start Impact Study (DHHS, ACF, 2012) and other research (Lee, Brooks-Gunn, and Schnur, 1988; Ramey and Ramey, 2004) indicate that the …
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The Head Start mother: organizational participation and the selves, self-concepts, and empowerment of low-income mothers
… whose children are or have been enrolled in a Head Start program in the midwest. Head Start is an educational program designed to provide a wide range of services to disadvantaged children and their families. Part of the program’s goals is to encourage parental participation in order to provide …
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Effects of Computerized Storybooks on Early Literacy Development of Preschool Children with Weak Self-Regulation Skills
… of 18 preschool children enrolled in an urban Head Start program. The children ranged in age from 43 months to 65 months. Children's measures included the Child Temperament and Personality Questionnaire-Short Form (CTPQ-SF), Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT),Phonological Awareness Literacy …
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The effects of parent training on parent-child interactions in an urban community
… Three parents, together with their children in a Head Start program participated in the study. A multiple baseline design across paired parent and child was used. Baseline data were collected through observations on parent and child interactions prior to the training, and intervention data were …
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Beating the Odds: A Case Study of Protective Factors of a Resilient Child Who Exhibits Well-Developed Prosocial Behavior
… conducted in a natural classroom setting of a Head Start program. Through the use of a case study method, a structured interview was implemented with the classroom teacher, semi-structured interviews were assigned to the child and her mother, and observations of the child participant were …
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Perinatal risk indicators and developmental abilities : examining children with phonological disorders
… and girls (n=55) randomly selected from a county Head Start program in north-central Indiana. The mean age of the preschoolers was 65 months. Information about perinatal risks and developmental abilities was obtained from mothers or primary caregivers. Using the Maternal Perinatal Scale (Dean, …
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Impact of a Teacher Training Program to Increase Cognitively Stimulating Talk: Pretest and Immediate Post-Test Results
… their students’ language development. The Head Start program is intended to alleviate the SES gap by providing a high quality education to preschool students. However, as measured by the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS), Head Start teachers are failing nationally in the area of …
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The Relationship Between Parent Nutrition Knowledge Level and Child Weight Status
… were obtained from 101 parents enrolled in a Head Start program in southern Mississippi. Weight status was obtained from 101 three to five year old children. Parent data was collected via survey, developed by the principal investigator. The survey had a 5.5 grade level, was pilot tested by 15 …
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