Federal Anti-poverty Program Establishes Foothold on Campus
Teaching children how to go to school can be an "exciting and satisfying experience," according to Frances D. Horowitz, associate professor of Human Development and Family Life.
Project Head Start is part of the federal anti-poverty program to prepare children from low-income families for a better start in school.
There are two phases to the KU program. One involves training the teachers for Project Head Start. The second part deals with the children themselves.
The children's program ran for eight weeks last summer, conducted by the KU Department of Human Development and Family Life. The project received a
grant of $3,878 from the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity.
There were two major goals in the program—a physical assessment of the children including an examination and any follow-up treatment which was recommended; and some experiences which would be helpful in school this fall.
The experiences which were covered were: learning to deal with numbers and art media, listening exercises, and leaving the family.
The program is primarily for children from lower income families. The Office of Economic Opportunities stipulates that at least 85 per cent of the children
in the program must be from families with an annual income of $3,000, $4,000 or less.
The 24 local children involved in Project Head Start attended the KU Nursery School five afternoons a week.
Most of the local children were chosen on the recommendation of the Children's Hour, a local volunteer nursery school. Although some of the children had not been to the Children's Hour, most had attended.
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