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Office of Head Start, US Department of Health and Human Services, 2024
This National Head Start Services Snapshot summarizes key data on demographics and services for preschool-age children served by Head Start programs. The data in this Snapshot is a subset of the annual Program Information Report (PIR) submission to the Office of Head Start. Data categories include: (1) Funded Enrollment; (2) Funded Enrollment by…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Federal Programs, Social Services, Females
Luis Faundez; Robert Kaestner – Evaluation Review, 2025
This article describes a conceptual and empirical approach for estimating a human capital production function of child development that incorporates mother- or child-fixed effects. The use of mother- or child-fixed effects is common in this applied economics literature, but its application is often inconsistent with human capital theory. We…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Low Income Students, Federal Programs, Social Services
Sam Ayers; Jennifer Hogg; Johanna Lacoe; Alan Perez; Jesse Rothstein – California Policy Lab, 2025
When the COVID-19 pandemic began, the federal government responded by expanding the country's safety-net programs, including through stimulus payments. There were also significant federal policy changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the largest food assistance program in the United States. Benefit amounts were increased,…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Eligibility, Enrollment Trends, COVID-19
Anna Wright; Anne Martin; Anna D. Johnson; Deborah Phillips; Diane Horm; Gigi Luk; Sherri Castle; Owen Schochet; Jane Hutchison; Anne Partika; April Dericks – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2025
Background: Public preschool can provide opportunities for earlier detection of child health problems and receipt of special needs services. This is especially important for children from low-income households who disproportionately face cost barriers to obtaining health screenings and services. Objective: This study explores the possibility that…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Identification, Early Intervention
Cook, Kyle DeMeo; Coley, Rebekah Levine – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021
Head Start programs engage in multiple practices to support children and families during the transition to kindergarten. Children moving from Head Start to kindergarten often encounter discontinuities between the program and services they were receiving and the new elementary school environment. This paper uses multiple datasets and methods to…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Kindergarten, Young Children, Preschool Children
Murray, Jane; Murray, Jemima – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
This article reports findings from a small-scale case study that captured parents' views about their experiences of a targeted government funded programme of early childhood education and care for the 40% 'most disadvantaged' two-year-olds in England. The programme is funded in the context of national government policies oriented to (i) closing…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Toddlers, Experience, Foreign Countries
Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center (REMS), 2021
The National Incident Management System (NIMS) is part of the National Preparedness System and supports the National Response Framework. NIMS puts forth a systematic approach to collaborating across disciplines and all levels of government to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from threats and hazards that impact the…
Descriptors: School Safety, Emergency Programs, Management Systems, Readiness
Rowe, Gretchen – Mathematica, 2021
In 2015, the U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded pilot grants to 10 States--California, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington--to test innovative strategies for providing employment and training services through Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment and Training (SNAP…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Program Implementation, Pilot Projects, Job Training
Pierce, Dennis – Community College Journal, 2022
The federal Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant program, which provided nearly $2 billion over four years to help community colleges meet employers' needs more effectively was a response to the 2008 recession. Distributed by the U.S. Department of Labor, the original TAACCCT funding brought colleges…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Grants, Federal Programs, Acceleration (Education)
Clarke, Gretchen S.; Douglas, Elizabeth B.; House, Marnie J.; Hudgins, Kristen E. G.; Campos, Sofia; Vaughn, Elizabeth E. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2022
This article describes our experience of conducting a 5-year, culturally responsive evaluation of a federal program with Indigenous communities. It describes how we adapted tenets from "participatory evaluation models" to ensure cultural relevance and empowerment. We provide recommendations for evaluators engaged in similar efforts. The…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Indigenous Populations, Cultural Relevance, Program Evaluation
Sward, Ashley; King, Jennifer; Glaze, Kelly; Klawetter, Susanne; Frankel, Karen A. – ZERO TO THREE, 2022
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to demonstrate far-reaching impact on individuals, families, and communities. Emerging research highlights the detrimental impact of the pandemic on perinatal mental health. Warm Connections is a behavioral health program embedded in Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women,…
Descriptors: Mental Health, COVID-19, Pandemics, Federal Programs
Cornett, Allyson – Trellis Company, 2022
When students are food insecure, they often encounter adverse health, social, and academic outcomes, including harm to cognitive functions, mental health, and academic performance. Additionally, compared to food secure peers, students struggling with food insecurity are 43 percent less likely to graduate from college with a two- or four-year…
Descriptors: College Students, Knowledge Level, Food Service, Hunger
Burris, Carol – Network for Public Education, 2022
Demand for charter schools is declining. In sixteen of the forty-one states that have published 2021-2022 enrollment numbers, charter school enrollment has dropped, in some cases, by substantial amounts. In an additional six states, charter enrollment has stalled with increases of fewer than 200 students in charter schools across the state. Using…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Enrollment, School Choice, Admission (School)
Jessica Lasky-Fink; Jessica Li; Anna Doherty – Grantee Submission, 2022
CalFresh benefits can help college students make ends meet while attending college, but not all eligible students apply. One contributing factor may be that students are not aware they are eligible. Therefore, outreach efforts informing them of their eligibility could help increase take-up rates. To test this, we designed and conducted two…
Descriptors: College Students, Electronic Mail, Letters (Correspondence), Information Dissemination
Griner, Amanda Heather – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to analyze whether relationships between Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) participation and community college student academic performance exist. Information from the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) was used to determine which students may otherwise qualify for SNAP benefits. The…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Welfare Services, Nutrition, Community College Students