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Bustamante, Andres S.; Hindman, Annemarie H. – Grantee Submission, 2018
Latino children are the fastest growing minority group in the United States and in order to best serve this population we need research to inform educators on specific cultural strengths that can be fostered and developed. Despite the known academic achievement gap between Latino children and their non-Latino peers, ecocultural strength based…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Hispanic American Students, School Readiness
Bustamante, Andres S.; White, Lisa J.; Greenfield, Daryl B. – Grantee Submission, 2018
Recent national focus on early childhood science education highlights the need for research on early science, particularly with children from low-income families, as science is the lowest performing school readiness domain in that population. Given this achievement gap, the Office of Head Start has emphasized the development of children's…
Descriptors: Science Education, Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Young Children
Brittany Alexander – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Quality in early childhood education (ECE) is central to equitable child development and preparation for formal schooling and has been widely studied by researchers and of interest to policy makers. As the federal pre-k program, Head Start is a key ECE context to understand quality and its implications for equity. One central measure of classroom…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Low Income Students, Federal Programs, Social Services
Office of Head Start, US Department of Health and Human Services, 2010
This report presents a revision of the Head Start Child Outcomes Framework (2000), renamed The Head Start Child Development and Learning Framework: Promoting Positive Outcomes in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children 3-5 Years Old. The Framework outlines the essential areas of development and learning that are to be used by Head Start programs…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Disadvantaged Youth