EDUC 106 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Early Head Start
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Early childhood education programs are now becoming federally funded and are major parts of the current education reform. Head start and early head start are the leading programs in early childhood professions that are federally funded. Federal programs and early childhood: obama is a big advocate for early childhood programs. Economic opportunity act of 1964- lead way for head start to begin: head start- one of the longest-running programs to address systematic poverty in the united states. Includes programs such as early head start, head start, family and community partnership, migrant and seasonal head start, Elementary and secondary education act-provides nd to help low- income families in schools. It reformed many education curriculums as well as how schools functioned. Increased standardized testing with the hope that a certain amount of the nation will achieve pro ciency by the year 2014 on the standardize testing scales. This helps more children arrive in kindergarten ready to succeed.
