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...supervisors during the Depression and to free mothers for defense work in World War II. The current impetus to lower the school age stems from the general success-still largely statistical-of Project Head Start, which gave 560,000 "culturally disadvantaged" children from low income families eight weeks of preschool training last summer, will handle another 210,000 three-to-six-year-olds in a year-round program starting next fall...
...burden of attack on the Delta Ministry has been that its 27 energetic, aggressive lay and clerical staff members, by ardently siding with Mississippi's Negro poor, tended to set them against other segments of society rather than reconcile the factions. Laudably, the Ministry helped set up preschool training centers under Project Head Start, badgered reluctant state officials to accept federal anti-poverty funds, worked with secular civil rights organizations to register Negro voters. Ministry leaders also actively organized a bitter and so far unsuccessful strike against cotton plantations, and encouraged the dramatic squatters' invasion of the Greenville...
...HEAD START. Launched with a modest budget of $17 million and a target of 100,000 needy preschool children, the venture has proved the poverty program's best success. The response was nearly six times greater than anticipated, with 560,000 pupils in 2,400 communities attending classes for two months last summer. On the average, the children added eight to ten points to their IQs and 14 months to their intellectual performances. Not least of Head Start's achievements has been to nip budding health problems by giving its children complete medical exams-their first in most...
...inherited in many cases, but may also be the result of early brain injury, and that it leads to reading difficulties in children who otherwise show normal intelligence in mental tests. Dyslexics display a whole syndrome of symptoms (some of which are no cause for concern in preschool-age children, but may indicate dyslexia if they persist beyond this age). Usually they confuse spatial relationships. Horizontally, this leads, for example, to spelling first as frist, very as vrey. Vertically, it may cause mixups between u and n, b and p, R and B. Their sense of time may be confused...
...Government-financed coffeehouse for idle youth. A new $800,000 training center offers classes in grammar and Negro history for 200 students. But the overall program has been snarled by political rivalry and bureaucratic delays, and visible accomplishments so far are few. A new Head Start project for preschool youngsters got under way only last month; a Job Skills Center for 1,400 is yet to open...