" It concluded, among other things, that Head Start programs designed to boost African-American IQ scores had failed, and that this was likely never to be remedied, largely because, in Jensen's estimation, 80 % of the variance in IQ in the population studied was the result of genetic factors and the remainder was due to environmental influences.

Some preschool ( ages 3 – 4 ) intervention programs like " Head Start " do not produce lasting changes of IQ, although they may confer other benefits.

* Freya Stafford, actress who has appeared on TV programs such as Head Start and White Collar Blue and the 2010 horror film, The Clinic

As part of the Great Society programs under President Lyndon Johnson, the Head Start Program was started with the goal of early intervention to help socially disadvantaged children succeed by providing remedial education.

Given the effects of segregation and discrimination into the 1960s, many Head Start programs served African-American children.

Social scientist and Head Start Program founder Urie Bronfenbrenner criticized the show for being too wholesome.

Head Start director Edward Zigler was probably Sesame Streets most vocal critic in the show's early years.

* M B North Early Learning Center / Head Start ( seeking, Principal )

Johnson set in motion bills and acts, creating programs such as Head Start, food stamps, Work Study, Medicare and Medicaid.

By the end of the Johnson Administration, 226 out of 252 major legislative requests ( over a four-year period ) had been met, federal Aid to the poor had risen from $ 9. 9 billion in 1960 to $ 30 billion by 1968, one million Americans had been retrained under previously non-existent federal programs, and two million children had benefited from the Head Start program.

It spawned dozens of programs, among them the Job Corps, whose purpose was to help disadvantaged youth develop marketable skills ; the Neighborhood Youth Corps, established to give poor urban youths work experience and to encourage them to stay in school ; Volunteers in Service to America ( VISTA ), a domestic version of the Peace Corps, which placed concerned citizens with community-based agencies to work towards empowerment of the poor ; the Model Cities Program for urban redevelopment ; Upward Bound, which assisted poor high school students entering college ; legal services for the poor ; the Food Stamp Act of 1964 ( which expanded the federal food stamp program ); the Community Action Program, which initiated local Community Action Agencies charged with helping the poor become self-sufficient ; and Project Head Start, which offered preschool education for poor children.

The Act established Head Start, which had originally been started by the Office of Economic Opportunity as an eight-week summer program, as a permanent program.

* Early Head Start

* Head Start

She staunchly opposed the Republican's Head Start program overhaul in the 108th Congress, invoking her experience growing up poor and challenged by a speech impediment.

We have had a lot of successes with Head Start ", she said.

In 2008 sister congresswomen Loretta Sanchez and Linda Sanchez published the joint memoir Dream in Color: How the Sanchez Sisters Are Making History in Congress. Publishers Weekly reviewed the book and wrote: " Linda and Loretta Sanchez present their compelling story — noteworthy not only for their history-making achievements ( including first sisters or women of any relation to serve together in Congress, first woman and person of color to represent a district in Orange County, first Latina on the House Judiciary Committee and first Head Start child to be elected to Congress ) but also for its “ American Dream ” aspect — their parents immigrated from Mexico and despite lacking a formal education managed to send their seven children to college.

This bill, which was enacted into law, “ amended the Head Start Act, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981, and the Community Services Block Grant Act ... in order to provide an opportunity for persons with limited means to accumulate assets .”

The Sevier County School System is composed of thirty-two public and private institutions ranging from Head Start programs through a number of secondary schools.

Head Start:

* Coleman Head Start Center

* McVeytown Head Start Center

While a part of the committee, his work helped produce the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 and Head Start.

The local Head Start in his home city of Hindman, Kentucky is named after Congressman Perkins ..

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

I believe, therefore, that we are without exception sinners, by nature alienated from God, and that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to earth, the representative Head of a new race, to die upon the cross and pay the penalty of the sin of the world, and that he who thus receives Christ as his personal Saviour is `` born again '' spiritually, with new privileges, appetites, and affections, destined to live and grow in His likeness forever.

Minerva is also the first name of Professor McGonagall, Harry Potter's Head of House, and a very wise witch of Hogwarts, always concerned with the safety of her students.

Thus at Mobile the annual mean is 67 ° F ( 19 ° C ), the mean for the summer 81 ° F ( 27 ° C ), and for the winter 52 ° F ( 11 ° C ); and at Valley Head, in De Kalb county, the annual mean is 59 ° F ( 15 ° C ), the mean for the summer 75 ° F ( 24 ° C ), and for the winter 41 ° F ( 5 ° C ).

Head spirit is a headless giant.

Head spirit is the yellow anaconda.

Head spirit is a native warrior.

Head doctor spirit is a grandfather with a long, gray-white beard.

Among other composers who set Housman songs were John Ireland ( song cycle, Land of Lost Content ), Michael Head ( e. g. ' Ludlow Fair '), Graham Peel ( a famous version of ' In Summertime on Bredon '), Ian Venables ( Songs of Eternity and Sorrow ), and the American Samuel Barber ( e. g. ' With rue my heart is laden ').

The title of Nicholas Blake's 1949 detective novel Head of a Traveller is a quotation from Housman's parody Fragment of a Greek Tragedy.

The Head of Government under the new constitution is the Premier ( prior to the new constitution the office was referred to as Chief Minister ), who is elected in a general election along with the other members of the ruling government as well as the members of the opposition.

In Thailand's constitutional monarchy, the monarch is recognized as the Head of State, Head of the Armed Forces, Upholder of the Buddhist Religion, and Defender of the Faith.

The Constitution stipulated that Australia was a constitutional monarchy, where the Head of State is the British ( or, since 1942, Australian ) monarch, who is represented at the federal level by a Governor-General, and at the state level by six Governors, one for each state.

The Queen of New Zealand, represented in the Cook Islands by the Queen's Representative, is the Head of State ; the Chief Minister is the head of government and of a multi-party system.

Recently, meetings have been attended by Queen Elizabeth II, who is the Head of the Commonwealth, although the Queen's formal appearance only began in 1997.

Camille's great-grandson, Joachim Pissarro, is former Head Curator of Drawing and Painting at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and is now a professor in Hunter College's Art Department.

Head of Programmes Wales at the BBC, Aneirin Talfan Davies, who commissioned several of Thomas ' early radio talks, believed that the poet's " whole attitude is that of the medieval bards.

In the case of the UN's Food Agencies, the Head of Mission to the Italian Republic is usually accredited as Permanent Representative.

During the rule of Henry VIII an Act of Parliament declared that ' this realm of England is an Empire ... governed by one Supreme Head and King having the dignity and royal estate of the imperial Crown of the same '.