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, ...

Arabella Miera, an assistant teacher at an Early Head Start program in Pueblo, Colorado, plays with children in this photo from 2021. Head Start programs are funded using an outdated formula that ...

Amanda Cruz doesn’t limit her conception of Head Start to federally funded preschool. For her, it means Franklin Park playgroups for her son, home visits for her daughter and community connections to ...

There’s a lot to keep toddlers busy at Dill’s family child care. Credit: Anya Kamenetz for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have ...

Malaya Peterkin and other preschoolers sat in bright blue chairs around a table on a recent afternoon, listening raptly to teacher Rachel Cepeda read a book about butterflies. Afterward, the children ...

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 ...

Early Head Start teacher Skyler Chipman cares for a child during naptime at Promise Early Education Center at 1 College St. in Lewiston in June, 2023. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal) Purchase this image ...

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