Earlier this month, Head Start celebrated a milestone – its 60th birthday. Throughout 11 presidential administrations and ...

It seems intuitively obvious that Head Start, as currently constituted, provides long-term benefits to children from low-income families. How could it not? A child who enters kindergarten with a ...

October is Head Start Awareness Month, and it hopes to bring awareness to this critical program that benefits millions of families and children in the United States. Head Start assists children ...

Decades of research confirm what many parents and educators already know: Quality early learning experiences set children on ...

But researchers and Head Start advocates say relying on that study fails to recognize its limitations, ignores promising findings from other research, and doesn’t take into account more recent efforts ...

Congressman Eric Sorensen said taking away funding from families in need is a question of morality for Congress.

Created in 1965, Head Start began as and remains a comprehensive child development program that promotes early ... a job with so much higher pay and benefits comes along, sometimes in the primary ...

Head Start provides early childhood care for students living at or below the poverty line. Such services make it possible for ...

Her oldest daughter also went through Head Start and saw lasting benefits. "She went to kindergarten ... The Head Start program currently serves around 430 children across 14 locations, primarily ...