Sentences with phrase «of heads started»

But when he started to ask those questions out loud «a lot of heads started to nod too».

It helps that he has a bit of a head start.

With The Pilgrim's Progress, familiarity with the story gave me a satisfying sense of head start over my classmates.

With that kind of head start, it's almost criminal to not build a dynamic roster around them.

That may explain why Mario Chalmers, guarding Belinelli, falls asleep, yielding this much of a head start on his curl.

«There is a lot at stake with not only the prestige of the marathon but also giving the team a bit of a head start when it comes to flying out to the Middle East in October.»

Rodgers may not have been able to take them all the way back to the front of topflight title races and cup competitions but perhaps his groundwork and focus on more modern concepts played its part in giving Klopp something of a head start.

• In the US, a study of Head Start families found that fathers with higher levels of depression had less involvement with their children (Roggman et al, 2002).

He will be able to count up to 10, learn the names of several colors and begin to gain a better grasp on the passing of time, according to the Office of Head Start's National Center for Teaching and Learning.

Administrators of the Head Start program, which services nearly 160 children from the Arlington Heights area, made a public plea Thursday in an effort to find a new facility to avoid jeopardizing the beginning of classes next year.

Early Head Start (EHS) is the infant - toddler portion of the Head Start program, serving pregnant women and families with children under age 3 with incomes below the poverty line.

Goal I: Within the context of each Head Start and Early Head Start family's culture, enrolled children will demonstrate progress in healthy social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development and in the achievement of social competence.

I think it's very safe to say this is a (misinterpreted) rule of the facility and staff of this Head Start preschool, rather than a broad requirement / law by the federal government as many of these blogs are implying.

Fagan and Iglesias16 explored the effects of Head Start fathers» participation in a program that included three components: classroom volunteering, attendance at organized fun activities, and a monthly support group.

Office of Head Start Head Start Works!

All health records of Head Start children are kept in a locked file with access limited to the Head Start program area staff, Teachers, and Home Visitors.

The ad, which you can watch below, attacks Walberg for voting against the reauthorization of Head Start — the only member of the House Education and Labor Committee to do so.

He is currently a guidance counselor at Fieldstone Secondary School in Thiells and serves as president of the Head Start board.

The quality of Head Start suffers partly because only half the teachers are required to have a college degree, and their pay is far lower than that of public pre-k teachers, he said.

Well, since I've given myself enough of a head start on my job search to take my time — or enough rope to hang myself — I guess the question is now where the heck to start looking.

In 1998, Congress mandated an evaluation of Head Start, called the Head Start Impact Study, a randomized trial of more than 4,000 children, ages 3 and 4, newly entering the Head Start program.

The researchers used the gold standard data from the Head Start Impact Study (HSIS), a randomized trial, to examine the effect of Head Start on parent outcomes rather than on child outcomes.

I've already purchased all the books on Amazon, and have gotten a little bit of a head start on the required reading.

Peonies can be planted in both spring and fall — planting in the fall just gives them more of a head start for when spring weather comes around!

Granted, you've got a bit more of a head start in your new home than I did with your blogger friends, my advice is to stay persistent, and really, really get out of your comfort zone.

, but I'm getting a little bit of a head start since I'm teaming up with Plaid for a fun Facebook Live event.

I'm planning to participate in the One Room Challenge next month and I've gotten a tiny bit of a head start with the painted walls.

A lot of VC's are throwing around a lot of money and probably have funded some of the other free sites, but I have so much of a head start that I don't think there's much they can do.

And he may already have a bit of a head start.

Just getting a bit of a head start.

She's forced into action when Vincent looks directly at her while he's in disguise, even though he's about a second from getting away with the charade, because, well, he needs a bit of a head start in a chase scene that, apparently, has to happen.

The rigor and relevance of his work — on subjects ranging from the long - term benefits of the Head Start program, the value of degrees from for - profit colleges, and the effects of racial segregation on academic achievement and life outcomes — make his findings absolutely essential reading for academics and policymakers alike,» said Dean James Ryan.

On the cusp of Head Start's 50th anniversary, he reflects on the program's formation, its strengths, and his hopes for Head Start's future.

His research on the impact of Head Start on long - term outcomes such as high school graduation and college attendance was published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.

Front row, right to left: Sargent Shriver, who spearheaded the program as director of the Office of Economic Opportunity; Lou Maginn, director of a Head Start project in Vermont; Lady Bird Johnson; entertainer Danny Kaye; and Mr. Shriver's sons Robert Shriver and Timothy Shriver.

This, the first issue of Education Next «s fourth year, also features Ron Haskins «s penetrating examination of Head Start's history, explaining why a program with such great promise has had so little success.

From the earliest evaluations of Head Start, it was clear that the program did not last long enough, and the most recent research confirms the same finding.

The Birth of Head Start: Preschool Education Policies in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations.

The plan is to turn control of Head Start over to the states, as long as they commit to making school readiness the program's chief priority and to meet several other requirements.

Up to eight states would be authorized to conduct demonstration programs testing whether state control of Head Start actually leads to better coordination of preschool programs, greater emphasis on school readiness, improvement in poor children's preschool test scores, and progress in closing the achievement gap between poor and advantaged students.

Furthermore, there was not even one study that included a national sample of Head Start programs.

Unfortunately, the first major evaluation of Head Start, published in 1969, failed to find permanent IQ gains, thereby raising the question of whether Head Start was incapable of influencing intellectual development or was just implemented poorly.

During the 1998 reauthorization of Head Start, Congress, recognizing the dearth of good research, ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct a scientific study of a national sample of Head Start centers.

In effect, Bush is overruling the Cooke committee by making school readiness — an easily measurable outcome — the single most important goal of Head Start.

The greatest challenge may come when even the overhaul of Head Start fails to change things much, as I expect it may.

New York Times, October 26, 2013 «Yet, in recent years, long - term follow - ups have shown that while the educational advantages of Head Start might fade, there are «life skill» gains that don't.

So rather than abandon a modestly successful program in our attempt to promote equality of education, the best policy would be to let a few states have more control of Head Start funds, carefully study their subsequent reforms, and then determine future policy based on solid evidence.

A 1997 study by the General Accounting Office (GAO) screened more than 200 empirical studies of Head Start and found only 22 that met their criteria for worthwhile research.

Unfortunately, it is difficult to make definitive statements about the effects of Head Start because of the shortage of reliable research.

Ultimately, Congress did not cut the $ 1.5 billion necessary to continue serving 218,000 children, their families and 55,000 staff of Head Start and Early Head Start services, Vinci says, for which she credits McCartney's piece.