Head Start child care.
What is head start
Head start is a program in the United States Department of health and human services that provides early childhood comprehension education,health,nutrition, and parent involvement service to lower income children and their familes.
Qualifications to work their.
You have to have a associate agree, bachelor or advanced degree in early childhood education. An associate agree is acceptable if you have experience teaching preschoolers.
Cost
It is 7 billion on Head start annually and for an average cost it is 7,600 per child serve
What ages does it serve.
Two or three year olds make up 80% of that and the early head start was to serve pregnant woman, infants and toddlers.
What head start look like.
3 Benefits of head start
They make progress towards language, literacy and math
Early head start children show significantly better social emotional language and cognitive development
They scored better than a control group of children in all measured domains of cognitive and social emotional developement
3 drawbacks of head start
It vanished by 3rd grade
Three interesting facts.
Improve the readiness of low income through education , health and nutritional service.
It is the largest preschool programs.
It is a preschool for children under 3 and up or younger
It serves nearly 1 million children today with low income
It consist of two ages 3 and 4 years old