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Head Start, U.S. educational program for disadvantaged preschool children, established under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. Aimed initially only at poor children, its purpose was to organize programs that would prepare preschool children for elementary school. Money was appropriated through the Office of Economic Opportunity, which made individual grants to cities and other localities to set up Head Start centers. In 1969 the program was transferred to the Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare (now Health and Human Services). It was later extended to children above the poverty level, whose parents, however, had to pay according to their income. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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. House of Representatives has voted narrowly to allow religious discrimination in hiring for Head Start centers run by religious groups. 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. |
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