Word: headstart
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When Brown attacked the Senate for staying up until midnight to discuss the Savings and Loan bailout and asked why they couldn't do the same to discuss full funding for Headstart, his listeners agreed. Like no speaker I had seen before, Jerry Brown spoke to his audience, and his audience heard...
...considered getting a headstart on studying for placement exams or classes, but changed his mind, he says. "I knew Harvard was going to be so dynamic, I needed some stillness for a little bit before I ventured off." And stillness, he--and others who chose to spend a quiet summer...
...years ago Psychologist Darlene Powell-Hopson of Middletown, Conn., tested 155 black and white youngsters between the ages of three and six in Headstart programs or preschools in New York City, on Long Island and in Connecticut. Using 20 Cabbage Patch dolls identical except for color, Hopson asked the children to give her the doll that "you want to be, you want to play with, is a nice color and would take home if you could." To Hopson's surprise, 65% of the black youngsters selected white dolls...
...past the Perry family seemed to have done everything right. Edmund, ^ whose hard-working mother Veronica taught in a local Headstart program and served on the community school board, had wanted to become a doctor, but was also considering a career in politics. He had planned to spend the summer working at a Wall Street investment house before heading for Stanford. To teachers, neighbors and friends of the family, the Perry brothers stood as prime examples of what the black community's youth could achieve. "Everybody looked up to Jonah and Edmund," Sheila Wright, a neighbor, told the New York...
Well, almost. With a $2000 grant from the Loeb Foundation, and some gifts from several corporations, the company had a headstart. But this year, members say, part of the experience includes selling advertisements, printing programs, and postering--and everyone does a little of everything...