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54 relations: Administration for Children and Families, Arkansas Early Learning, Associate degree, Bachelor of Arts, Blanca Enriquez, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Child development, Child Development Associate, Community Action Agencies, Compensatory education, Council of Economic Advisers, Early childhood education, Early Head Start, Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, Edward Zigler, Elementary school, Emotional well-being, Great Society, Intelligence quotient, Janet Currie, Jenny Is a Good Thing, Job Corps, Joe Klein, Johns Hopkins University, Jule Sugarman, Lyndon B. Johnson, McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act, National Longitudinal Surveys, Nutrition, Office of Economic Opportunity, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Poverty in the United States, Preschool, Project STAR, Regression discontinuity design, Richard Nixon, Robert's Rules of Order, Rutgers University, Selection bias, Sesame Street, Sesame Workshop, Southwest Human Development, Stan Salett, Storybook Activities for Improving Language, Summer school, Superior Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan, Sure Start, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, The Washington Post, Treatment and control groups, ..., United States Department of Health and Human Services, Upward Bound, Walter Heller, Yale Child Study Center. Expand index (4 more) »
Administration for Children and Families
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is a division of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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Arkansas Early Learning
Arkansas Early Learning, Inc. headquartered in Jonesboro, Arkansas, is a nonprofit organization as classified under Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3) that provides federal and community funded Head Start and Early Head Start services to almost 1,200 families throughout Arkansas annually.
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Associate degree
An associate degree (or associate's degree) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study intended to usually last two years or more.
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Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB, from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, sciences, or both.
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Blanca Enriquez
Blanca Enriquez is an American educator.
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Carnegie Corporation of New York
Carnegie Corporation of New York was established by Andrew Carnegie during 1911 "to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding".
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Child development
Child development entails the biological, psychological and emotional changes that occur in human beings between birth and the end of adolescence, as the individual progresses from dependency to increasing autonomy.
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Child Development Associate
The Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential is the most widely recognized credential in early childhood education (ECE) in the U.S. The credential is awarded by the Council for Professional Recognition.
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Community Action Agencies
In the United States and its territories, Community Action Agencies (CAA) are local private and public non-profit organizations that carry out the Community Action Program (CAP), which was founded by the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act to fight poverty by empowering the poor as part of the War on Poverty.
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Compensatory education
Compensatory education offers supplementary programs or services designed to help children at risk of cognitive impairment and low educational achievement succeed.
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Council of Economic Advisers
The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) is a United States agency within the Executive Office of the President established in 1946, which advises the President of the United States on economic policy.
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Early childhood education
Early childhood education (ECE; also nursery education) is a branch of education theory which relates to the teaching of older children (formally and informally) up until the age of about eighteen (birth to Grade 2).
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Early Head Start
Early Head Start is a federally funded community-based program for low-income families with pregnant women, infants, and toddlers up to age 3.
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Economic Opportunity Act of 1964
The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 authorized the formation of local Community Action Agencies as part of the War on Poverty.
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Edward Zigler
Edward Frank Zigler (born March 1, 1930) is an American developmental psychologist and Sterling Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University.
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Elementary school
Elementary school is a school for students in their first school years, where they get primary education before they enter secondary education.
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Emotional well-being
The implications of decreased emotional well-being are related to mental health concerns such as stress, depression, and anxiety.
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Great Society
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65.
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Intelligence quotient
An intelligence quotient (IQ) is a total score derived from several standardized tests designed to assess human intelligence.
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Janet Currie
Janet Currie is a Canadian economist.
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Jenny Is a Good Thing
Jenny Is a Good Thing is a 1969 American short documentary film about children and poverty, directed by Joan Horvath.
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Job Corps
Job Corps is a program administered by the United States Department of Labor that offers free-of-charge education and vocational training to young men and women ages 16 to 24.
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Joe Klein
Joe Klein (born September 7, 1946) is a political columnist for Time magazine and is known for his novel Primary Colors, an anonymously written roman à clef portraying Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign.
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Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University is an American private research university in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Jule Sugarman
Jule Meyer Sugarman (September 23, 1927 – November 2, 2010) was a founder of Head Start who also led the program for its first five years.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after having served as the 37th Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963.
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McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act
The McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 (Pub. L. 100-77, July 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 482, et seq.) is a United States federal law that provides federal money for homeless shelter programs.
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National Longitudinal Surveys
The National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) are a set of surveys conducted by the US Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, designed to gather information at multiple points in time on significant life events of several population samples of US citizens, especially their labor market activities.
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Nutrition
Nutrition is the science that interprets the interaction of nutrients and other substances in food in relation to maintenance, growth, reproduction, health and disease of an organism.
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Office of Economic Opportunity
The Office of Economic Opportunity was the agency responsible for administering most of the War on Poverty programs created as part of United States President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society legislative agenda.
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Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, the 2007 edition of which is known as the PPVT-IV, is an untimed test of receptive vocabulary for Standard American English and is intended to provide a quick estimate of verbal ability and scholastic aptitude.
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Poverty in the United States
Poverty is a state of deprivation, lacking the usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions.
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Preschool
A preschool, also known as nursery school, pre-primary school, playschool or kindergarten, is an educational establishment or learning space offering early childhood education to children before they begin compulsory education at primary school.
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Project STAR
Project STAR (Steps to Achieving Resilience) was three-year, federally funded research project which consisted of an intervention with preschoolers enrolled in the Head Start program in Lane County, Oregon, United States.
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Regression discontinuity design
In statistics, econometrics, political science, epidemiology, and related disciplines, a regression discontinuity design (RDD) is a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design that elicits the causal effects of interventions by assigning a cutoff or threshold above or below which an intervention is assigned.
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.
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Robert's Rules of Order
Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, commonly referred to as Robert’s Rules of Order, RONR, or simply Robert’s Rules, is the most widely used manual of parliamentary procedure in the United States.
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Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, commonly referred to as Rutgers University, Rutgers, or RU, is an American public research university and is the largest institution of higher education in New Jersey.
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Selection bias
Selection bias is the bias introduced by the selection of individuals, groups or data for analysis in such a way that proper randomization is not achieved, thereby ensuring that the sample obtained is not representative of the population intended to be analyzed.
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Sesame Street
Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry.
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Sesame Workshop
Sesame Workshop (SW), formerly Children's Television Workshop (CTW), is an American non-profit organization which has been responsible for the production of several educational children's programs—including its first and best-known, Sesame Street—that have been televised internationally.
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Southwest Human Development
Southwest Human Development is a nonprofit organization focused on early child development, including adolescent mental health, child literacy, education, disability services and child welfare.
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Stan Salett
Stan Salett (born April 6, 1936) is a civil rights organizer, national education policy advisor and creator of the Upward Bound Program and helped to initiate Head Start.
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Storybook Activities for Improving Language
Storybook Activities for Improving Language (SAIL) was an intervention where Head Start teachers were trained to use storybook reading to improve the literacy skills, particularly vocabulary skills, of preschool children.
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Summer school
Summer school (or summer university) is a school, or a program generally sponsored by a school or a school district, or provided by a private company, that provides lessons and activities during the summer vacation.
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Superior Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan
Superior Township, officially the Charter Township of Superior, is a charter township in Washtenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Sure Start
Sure Start is a UK Government area-based initiative, announced in 1998 by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, applying primarily in England with slightly different versions in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is one of the United States of America's federal assistance programs.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.
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Treatment and control groups
In the design of experiments, treatments are applied to experimental units in the treatment group(s).
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United States Department of Health and Human Services
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), also known as the Health Department, is a cabinet-level department of the U.S. federal government with the goal of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services.
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Upward Bound
Upward Bound is a federally funded educational program within the United States.
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Walter Heller
Walter Wolfgang Heller (27 August 1915 – 15 June 1987) was a leading American economist of the 1960s, and an influential adviser to President John F. Kennedy as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, 1961–64.
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Yale Child Study Center
The Yale Child Study Center is a department at the Yale University School of Medicine.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_Start_(program)
