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Poverty Wages, Staffing Crisis: New Federal Rule Looks to Sustain Head Start

New federal rule raises annual Head Start teacher salaries by $10,000 over time — but congressional funding is not guaranteed.

Amanda Geduld·Sep 24, 2024·6 min read

Andrea Muñeton has been a Head Start educator in California for 14 years. The work is important but greuling, she...

Top Head Start Program Embraces Innovation, Dispels Sacred Cows

Tom Kertscher·Apr 23, 2019·5 min read

As a preschooler, Victoria Ankrah was taught in a Paterson, N.J., Head Start program where her mother was a member...

When Head Start Parents Become Head Start Teachers

Mark Swartz·Dec 21, 2021·4 min read

Erin Kirkley, 25, of San Antonio, Tex., discovered the Ella Austin Community Center last year when she brought her baby...

Breaking Poverty’s Grip: New Head Start Study of Second-Generation Statistics Show It Can Be Done

K.C. Compton·Jul 12, 2022·6 min read

“Five- and six-year-old children are inheritors of poverty’s curse and not its creators.” –President Lyndon B. Johnson, May 1965 In...

Recent Study Suggests Head Start Programs Provide Effective Intervention in Addressing Childhood Obesity

K.C. Compton·Aug 3, 2022·6 min read

As parents, educators and policymakers wrestle with the reality that a large and growing percentage of U.S. children are obese...

Top Takeaways From the NHSA Policy Webinar Series: Building Resilient Head Start Systems through State Partnerships

Mark Swartz·Sep 11, 2020·2 min read

On Tuesday, September 1, the National Head Start Association (NHSA) hosted the second event in their State Policy Webinar Series. Participants highlighted the challenges and successes of three states attempting to offer quality, accessible education options for young children.

Book Review: New Book on Preschool Segregation Raises Under-Examined Questions

False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers

Elliot Haspel·Nov 14, 2023·9 min read

This week brings the release of an important new book on early care and education. False Starts: The Segregated Lives...

“Gold Standard” Study Finds High-Quality Care Is Important in Infancy

Study Finds the Benefits Last Well Into Elementary School

Bryce Covert·Aug 14, 2023·5 min read

By now the benefits of high-quality preschool are widely accepted. But there are still open questions about its impact: Is...

How does Girl Scouts of America start shaping young girls into strong, successful adults? As CEO Sylvia Acevedo describes, it begins with early education.

Role of Girl Scouts and Early Learning: Sylvia Acevedo, CEO, Girl Scouts of America

The Editors·Jan 2, 2019·7 min read

How does Girl Scouts of America start shaping young girls into strong, successful adults? As CEO Sylvia Acevedo describes, it begins with early education.

A Marriage of True Minds: Start Early and the Early Learning Lab

Mark Swartz·May 19, 2021·3 min read

Businesses merge all the time. Nonprofit mergers rarely occur, but experts have long pointed to the potential advantages of joining...

Early Education Is the Most Segregated Learning Space

How Researchers Casey Stockstill and Halley Potter Hope to Change That

Kendra Hurley·Jul 2, 2024·7 min read

It’s been 70 years since the Supreme Court’s pivotal Brown vs. Board of Education ruling that racially segregated schools are...

Diane Trister Dodge: ‘To Become the Best Teacher Possible’

The Editors·Nov 21, 2019·6 min read

When Diane Trister Dodge began working with Head Start, she created her own learning materials with mimeographs and homemade filmstrips. That creative focus on training teachers helped Diane become founder of Teaching Strategies and now President of the Dodge Family Fund, promoting the early childhood profession and programs that help children in poverty to be successful.

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