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  2. Head Start (program) - Wikipedia

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    Launched in 1965 [3] by its creator and first director Jule Sugarman and Bernice H. Fleiss, Head Start was originally conceived as a catch-up summer school program that would teach low-income children in a few weeks what they needed to know to start elementary school. The Head Start Act of 1981 [4] expanded the program. [5]

  3. Early childhood education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The New Jersey case Abbott County School District v. Burke and South Carolina case Abbeville County School District v. State established early but incomplete precedents in looking at "adequate education" as education that addresses needs best identified in early childhood, including immediate and continuous literacy interventions.

  4. Biden administration hikes pay for Head Start teachers to ...

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    The Biden administration is hiking pay for educators in the early childhood program Head Start as part of an effort to retain current employees and attract new ones in the midst of a workforce ...

  5. Head Start seeking students for the upcoming year - AOL

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    Head Start is a federal program for kids ages three to five whose parents meet certain income guidelines. The program enhances kids' emotional, social and cognitive development and supports their ...

  6. School-to-work transition - Wikipedia

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    School-to-work transition [1] is a phrase referring to on-the-job training, apprenticeships, cooperative education agreements or other programs designed to prepare students to enter the job market. This education system is primarily employed in the United States, partially as a response to work training as it is done in Asia.

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  8. Follow Through (project) - Wikipedia

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    Since Head Start was politically popular, a program associated with Head Start would put the OEO "back in the good graces of Congress". [3]: 5 Although Follow Through, like Head Start, was initially intended as a social action program, the decision to transform Follow Through from a social action program to a social experiment was not ...

  9. Vocational education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Vocational schools or tech schools are post-secondary schools (students usually enroll after graduating from high school or obtaining their GEDs) that teach the skills necessary to help students acquire jobs in specific industries. The majority of postsecondary career education is provided by proprietary (privately-owned) career institutions.