| Description |
xxiii, 564 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Early educational interventions and intelligence : implications for Head Start / Craig T. Ramey and Sharon Landesman Ramey -- Familiar concept, new name : social competence/school readiness as the goal of Head Start / Rebecca D.A. Schrag, Sally J. Styfco, and Edward Zigler -- When psychology informs public policy : the case of early childhood intervention / Martin Woodhead -- Head Start : revisiting a historical psychoeducational intervention : revisionist perspective / Irving E. Sigel -- Three core concepts of the War on Poverty : their origins & significance in Head Start / Polly Greenberg -- Was Head Start a community action program? : another look at an old debate / Carolyn Harmon -- Early administrator's perspective on Head Start / Julius B. Richmond (with Jule M. Sugarman) -- Head Start classroom as an oral language environment : what should the performance standards be? / Catherine E. Snow and Mariela M. Paez -- Community-based approach to school readiness in Head Start / Chaya S. Piotrkowski -- Head Start and evidence-based educational models / David P. Wiekart -- Head Start's efforts to improve child health / Robert W. O'Brien, David B. Connell, and James Griffin -- The challenge of mental health in Head Start : making the vision real / Jane Knitzer -- A persistent pattern of progress : parent outcomes in longitudinal studies of Head Start children and families / Peggy D. Pizzo and Elizabeth Edwards Tufankjian -- A parent's views on Head Start / Delores Baynes -- A former Head Start student's views / U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez -- Does Head Start have lasting cognitive effects? : the myth of fade-out / W. Steven Barnett -- How well does Head Start prepare children to learn to read? / Grover J. Whitehurst and Greta M. Massetti -- New possibilities for research on Head Start / Deborah A. Phillips and Sheldon H. White -- Head Start in the 1990s : striving for quality through a decade of improvement / Joan Lombardi and Amy Stephens Cubbage -- Quality in Head Start : a dream within research / Gregg Powell -- Head Start : a decade of challenge and change / Judith A. Chafel, Heather L. Sugioka -- Professional social work involvement in Head Start / Arthur J. Frankel -- Head Start and child care : programs adapt to meet the needs of working families / Helen Blank and Nicole Oxendine Poersch -- Are there better ways to spend federal child care funds to improve child outcomes? / Douglas J. Besharov -- The "Failure" of Head Start / John Merrow -- A Head Start for all children / Gwen Morgan -- Dosage-response effects and mechanisms of change in public and model programs / Arthur J. Reynolds -- The transition to school : building on preschool foundations and preparing for lifelong learning / Sharon Landesman Ramey, Craig T. Ramey, and Robin Gaines Lanzi -- Early Head Start, child care, family support, and family policy / Sheila B. Kamerman and Alfred J. Kahn -- The brain and child development : time for some critical thinking / John T. Bruer -- Critical periods in central nervous system development / Paul J. Lombroso and Kyle D. Pruett -- The environmental mystique : training the intellect versus development of the child / Edward Zigler -- Coordinating Head Start with the states / Wade F. Horn -- Maintaining federal to local management of Head Start / Sarah M. Greene -- What can be learned from state-funded prekindergarten initiatives? : data-based approach to the Head Start devolution debate / Walter S. Gilliam and Carol H. Ripple -- Caveat emptor : the Head Start scam / John Hood -- The wisdom of a federal effort on behalf of impoverished children and their families / Edward Zigler and Sally J. Styfco -- Head Start as a national laboratory / Christopher C. Henrich -- The future of Head Start / Barbara T. Bowman. |
| Subject |
Head Start programs -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Zigler, Edward, 1930-2019
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Styfco, Sally J.
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| ISBN |
1557667543 paperback |
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1557667756 hardback |
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