Knowra Head Start Head Start Head Start is a United States federal program that provides early learning, health, nutrition, and family services to eligible young children and their families.
Early Head Start : A Head Start program serving pregnant people, infants, and toddlers from birth to age three. It extends Head Start’s comprehensive services to the earliest years of development.
War on Poverty : A set of United States federal initiatives launched in the 1960s to reduce poverty. Head Start began as part of this broader federal effort.
Jule Sugarman : An American public administrator who helped design and lead the first Head Start program. Sugarman directed the planning that turned the 1965 project into a national initiative.
Abecedarian Project : A randomized early-childhood intervention study in North Carolina that provided intensive care and education to young children. Its intensive model offers a comparison point for evaluating Head Start’s broader, locally delivered approach.
Universal preschool : Publicly funded preschool offered to all children in a defined age group, regardless of family income. Unlike Head Start, access is not limited to children meeting income or other eligibility criteria.
Head Start Program Performance Standards : Federal requirements governing the services, governance, staffing, and operations of Head Start programs. They set the national baseline for how local programs deliver Head Start services.
Project Head Start : The 1965 summer pilot that established the model later developed into the Head Start program. It was the initial implementation of the program’s comprehensive approach.
Edward Zigler : An American developmental psychologist who helped shape Head Start policy and early-childhood research. Zigler advocated for comprehensive services and stronger evaluation of the program.
Head Start Impact Study : A large federal evaluation of Head Start’s effects on children and families who applied in 2002. It measured program impacts using randomized assignment to offers of enrollment.
Child care : Supervision and care for children, often while parents work or attend school. Head Start includes care, but also mandates education, health, nutrition, and family services.
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