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3 Recognizing the Diversity of Children and Families in Head Start
Pages 20-28

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... Start programs evolve to accommociate emergent neecis of the communities they serve? Jean Layzer raised the following questions: What is family growth and how do we measure it?
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... STUDYING HEAD START'S FAMILIES: GENERAL THEMES 19 mants may offer an initial step in a series of efforts to ascertain what works for whom in Head Start and in identifying aspects of family effects that the families themselves are concerned about. Oral histories from parents are an important acIdition to other efforts to document Head Start's efficacy: What aspects of HeacI Start clo parents like, what would they like the program to offer them that it floes not, and what do they believe their chilciren are getting from Head Start?
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... migrant and immigrant children. Estimates suggest that 20 percent of the chilciren enrolled in Head Start nationwide speak a language other than English (Kagan ant!
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... The English literacy of nonEnglish-speaking Head Start parents, many of whom are experiencing growing pressures to enter the labor force, is also a matter of pressing concern to Head Start. To increase the responsiveness of Head Start programs to the cultural and linguistic needs of the families they serve, in 1993 ACYF initiated a three~year Descriptive Stucly of Head Start Bilingual and Multicultural
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... compe' fence in their native language and preparing them for what are typically English only kindergartens was of great concern. For these chilclren, the school transition process is very important, given that many Head Start children are likely to experience a shift from bilingual Head Start cIass' rooms to unilingual kindergarten classrooms.
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... What enables family support staff to be successful in bridging home ant] school environments?
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... Start Bilingual and Multicultural Program Services, parents are interviewed about their language preferences. Preliminary results suggest that non'English~proficient parents tent]
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... to all Head Start programs Carole Clarke highlighted two critical questions for research: What characteristics distinguish more and less effective support staff in the programs? What kinds of training wild facilitate the staff's effectiveness in their work with a culturally diverse population?
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... whether there are ways in which Head Start programs can offer greater continuity of care to these chilciren. Research on migrant families also needs to consider the highly Risen franchisee]
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