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Project Head Start was implemented in 1965 by the U.S Government. Head Start is a comprehensive child development program that serves children from 3 to age 5 and their families. The goal of Head Start is to increase school readiness of young children of low-income families. This program also provides the children with dental, medical, mental health services, as well as, nutrition and parent involvement.

Over the past four decades, Head Start has served over 23 million children and their families (U.S Department of Health and Human Services, 2006); however, only half of eligible children have been able to participate in Head Start because of lack of government funding. Fortunately, Head Start started to receive more funding in the past few years. Because of this, Early Head Start was created in 1994 for low-income families of infants and toddlers, as well as, expecting mothers (Driscoll & Nagel, 2008, 401).

According to Lee & Ludington (2016) a study was conducted on "Head Start's impact on socio-emotional outcomes for children who have experienced violence or crime and those how have not" (499). The study found that children who participated in Head Start showed less hyperactive scores and more positive approaches to learning than children who did not participate in Head Start (Lee & Ludington, 2016, 509).

Lee & Ludington (2016) believe that this is a result of "Head Start's delivery of quality services with increased attention directed toward participating children and use of strength-based performance standards in classrooms (Whiteside-Mansell et al. 2009)" (509). Therefore, Head Start programs have had proven positive impacts for these children and their families.

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Head Start launched in 1965 and was designed to help break the poverty cycle by providing low income families preschool education. Over the last few years Head Starts importance and funding has increased. Offering this education support to low income families was found to be a great demand as there were many children and low income families not being served due to the lack of availability. In 2007 the Improving Head Start for School Readiness Act was implemented.

This act guided Head Starts to bettering their quality by alignment of early learning standards, higher qualifications for teachers, adding state advisory councils, and much more. The office of Head Start shared that "Head Start has served over 32 million children since 1965, growing from an eight-week demonstration project to include full day/year services and many program options."

Head Start has offered many children with education opportunities to help prepare students to start their educational career. " In 2006, a decrease of 1 percent in Head Start funding caused great concern about support for and access to Head Start programs, with their proven positive impacts on children and families " (Nagel).

The positive effects of Head Start are overwhelming. Head Start's create options for child care, provide education for low income families, and offers so much to these students and families. While we still lack availability in these programs it is essential for all to see how powerful, impacting, and important this program is. Advocating for this program is a need in our society to keep offering these amazing opportunities for low income families

The Age of Exploration and Imperialism

Please review the "List of 10" provided in the Age of Exploration Content folder. After reviewing it please write a paragraph, using at least five sentences, that answers the following questions. Please use your own words and do not copy directly from the internet or any other sources.

Questions

1. What did nations hope to gain from exploration?

2. Which nations were powerful explorers? Which native lands are being impacted by foreign powers?

3. What impact do you think exploration had on the native populations? Describe the benefits and consequences.

4. Predict what the world would be like today if the age of exploration had not occurred? Describe some positive and negative changes?

5. Create a three step plan that will allow nations to gain the benefits of exploration without causing any of the negative effects of exploration.

LIST OF 10

1. Imperialism: forming an empire by colonizing foreign lands.

2. Race to Empire: after early exploration revealed the profit of foreign trade, many European nations raced to see who could carve up the most foreign land.

3. The British Empire: in the 1700's Great Britain formed the largest and most powerful empire in the world.

-Scotland, Ireland, America, Africa, India and Asia, Australia and numerous islands.

4. New Resources: the west benefited greatly from the British Empire. Luxurious goods such as linen and silk or coffee and tropical fruit became accessible and affordable throughout Europe.

5. Foreign Benefits: British colonies received benefits from their relationship with the empire.

- protected by the British navy

- provided schools, housing and medicine

- exchanged raw materials for alcohol, tobacco and fire arms.

6. Oppression: as the British Empire gained more wealth from its colonies it began to control them more strictly. It controlled all the legal, cultural, and economic aspects of their lands.

7. Entrapment: colonists would harvest the raw materials, sugar cane, silk, spices, etc. The British sent it home to be manufactured and forced the colonists to buy it back at the inflated price.

-colonists were treated like tools for economic gain not humans. They could never gain the right to vote or have social equality.

8. Atlantic Slave Trade: as the profit from cash crops grew in "the new world" land owners needed a large workforce that would harvest the crops but not reduce profit.

- Europeans traveling to India made frequent stops in Africa. They realized the natives had inferior weapons and a weaker social structure.

- Many nations captured natives as slaves and forced them to harvest crops in their colonies.

9. Triangular trade: the typical path of the Atlantic slave trade. -Europeans would sail to Africa, capture or trade goods for slaves.

-They would send the slaves to America or the sugar islands.

-Slaves would harvest raw goods and send them back to Europe.

-Europeans would then use those items to trade for more slaves.

10. Cultural destruction: the slave trade ruined the lives of the individual slave but it also destroyed the local community.

-The women were unable to manage their crops.

-Families were divided and the social structure torn apart

-Warlords took advantage of those left behind, even selling their fellow man into slavery for money.