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[...]... This study therefore focuses on the program's development within the context ofthe passage and implementation of ESEA and of OEO's Follow Through Program 9 The book also considers the challenges faced by HeadStart in the second half ofthe 1960s, including debates about the nature and control ofthe politically controversial Mississippi HeadStart programs, HeadStart as an integral part of community... others (such as staff ofthe u.S Children~s Bureau) opposed the entry of women into the labor force-especially those with children under the age of two Divisions remained regarding the advisability of this practice, but the war emergency mitigated the most intense public hostility toward it 24 In response to the large-scale entry of mothers into the workforce, the Community Facilities Act of 1941 (the. .. broader policy perspective on the origins and development of preschools and HeadStart 10 The book ends by summarizing developments in preschool policy in the late 1950S and 1960s and discussing the valuable contributions ofthe Kennedy and johnson administrations to the creation and implementation ofHeadStart and other early childhood education programs The chapter also analyzes the relation between politics... examination of policies toward preschools and HeadStart during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations is needed Although much ofthe earlier work emphasizes the role of Sargent Shriver, the Robert Cooke HeadStart Planning Committee, and early childhood developmentalists, it does not consider other players such as federal education officials and members of Congress as thoroughly The early contributions of. .. however As the nation mobilized for World War II and the Great Depression tapered off, the number of WPA nursery schools declined The program was abandoned in 1943 23 The mobilization caused labor shortages in many sectors ofthe workforce, and women-often mothers-were recruited to staff the defense industry The temporary labor shortage helped many Americans accept the idea that working mothers were... Project Head Start: A Legacy ofthe War on Poverty 4 Other scholars have devoted surprisingly little attention to the origins ofHeadStart Although some older studies ofthe war on poverty may include a few pages or a chapter on the program, their authors lacked access to later archival and oral histories that offer additional insights 5 More recent scholars usually devote only a few pages to it, as is the. .. attacked the work ofthe Iowa scientists Not only did they reject the idea that IQ was not predetermined at birth, but they criticized the statistical methods employed in the Iowa studies 32 Thus, dissenting research was suppressed and the prevailing view that IQ remains constant over time and that children's learning depends on maturation dominated the field of child development during the first half of the. .. government participated in local education even before the 1787 drafting ofthe Constitution, when the Congress ofthe Confederation adopted the Survey Ordinance of 1785, reserving one section of every township in the Western Territory for establishment of EDUCATION, POVERTY, AND EARLY SCHOOLING IN THE KENNEDY ADMINISTRATION schools In 1787 the authors ofthe Northwest Ordinance declared that "religion,... educational but rather a broader early childhood development intervention for preschoolers Unfortunately, the 2 INTRODUCTION scholarly literature about the origin and nature ofHeadStart and other early childhood education programs in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations is limited and does not provide a balanced, in-depth analysis ofthe issue 2 Helpful introductions to the development ofHeadStart include... presidentiallibraries, and regional archives This analysis places the origins ofHeadStart within the broad historical context ofthe 1950S and early 1960s It encompasses the discovery" of poverty, the changing perspectives on early childhood education, and the development of experimental preschool programs funded by the Ford Foundation and other sponsors This study also explores President John F Kennedy's . Association
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ABBREVIATIONS
OCD
OE
OEO
OPED
PPB
RFP
RPP&E
SRS
VISTA
WPA
Office
of
Child Development
Office
of
Education
Office
of
Economic
Opportunity
Office
of
Programs for Education
of
the
Disadvantaged
Planning-Programming-Budgeting. analysis
of
the issue.
2
Helpful introductions
to
the development
of
Head
Start include Edward
Zigler and Susan Muenchow's
Head
Start:
The
Inside Story
of
America's