Sentences with phrase «early war on poverty»

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In the early days of the federal War on Poverty in the 1960s, researchers provided three - and four - year - olds from impoverished Ypsilanti, Michigan, with enriched preschooling, and then compared their life trajectories over several decades with those of Ypsilanti peers who had not received any early childhood education.

The ambitious early - childhood program launched in 1965 as part of the War on Poverty is going through dramatic — and sometimes painful — changes, while continuing to pursue its mission.

In the early 1960s, before the War on Poverty was declared, I was deeply involved in the local Chicago civil rights movement.

Another favorite early education program, Head Start, a creator of which died on February 2, was launched in 1965 as part of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty and is another early education initiative that enjoys great public support.

The Problem of Head Start Nowhere is resistance to structured, curriculum - based, standards - and - assessment - driven early education clearer than in the big, iconic, federal early - childhood program known as Head Start, a legacy of Lyndon Johnson's mid-1960s declaration of war on poverty.

«Supplement, not supplant» is a key element of the education act, going back to the earliest version of the law, enacted five decades ago as part of President Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty, and the roots of controversy stretch back that far as well.

Head Start turns 50 this week, a milestone that reminds us that in many ways the War - on - Poverty program pioneered the path that led to today's push for a broad and high - quality early education system.