Head Start

New rules, new reviews, and new funding for young, low-income children.

Deborah Phillips at Georgetown University has spent more than a decade studying preschool programs in Oklahoma. Her latest research found strong gains in some areas, but slow progress in others.

It's an effort to combat the damaging effects on kids from the city's lead-laced water. The effects of lead exposure are lifelong and can cause learning disabilities.

Fewer kids living in poverty are able to attend Head Start this school year due to the federal budget tightening known as sequestration. Head Start has…

Two Seattle-based Head Start providers are losing their funding, as part of a wider crackdown within the federal preschool program.Other agencies will…

For the first time in its 47-year history, the Head Start program is introducing some tough accountability measures. That’s left three Washington…

A new project just launched at the University of Washington could give Head Start teachers a boost. The effort aims to redesign how instructors for the…