Head Start and Early Head Start programs are designed to holistically nurture the educational, health, and socio-emotional welfare of children from low-income backgrounds. These programs are the ...

Home-based services promote secure parent-child relationships and help parents provide high-quality early learning experiences in language, literacy, mathematics, social and emotional functioning, ...

Head Start is celebrating its 60th year, but the program has faced funding disruptions, a federal government shutdown and ...

When people think of Head Start programming, images of preschoolers typically come to mind. In reality, while Head Start preschool programming does serve children ages 3-5, there is also Early Head ...

Adrianna Salas, a dedicated infant/toddler educator at the Child and Family Research Center’s Early Head Start Program in the College of Education & Human Development, has been recognized as the 2024 ...

A teacher helps a child with an art project in a rural Head Start classroom. Half of Head Start slots are in rural areas. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one ...

Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, warned that Project 2025, a conservative policy agenda, could spell the end for Head Start, a federally funded program ...

The Trump administration’s decision to close a regional Head Start office in Chicago this week has raised questions about how the program, which serves more than 28,000 children and low-income ...

Head Start programs that serve thousands of Colorado children may face closure or disruptions in care and nutrition if the federal government shutdown stretches past this week. Four early child care ...

Head Start has faced a series of escalating threats under the Trump administration. A recent administration budget proposal calls for a complete termination of the 60-year-old program. Eliminating the ...