Funding for this research was provided by:
Heising-Simons Foundation
Article History
Accepted: 19 January 2021
First Online: 3 March 2021
Authors’ Note
: 1. The Head Start program is our nation’s largest federally funded effort to intervene on behalf of low-income children’s school readiness (Zigler et al.CitationRef removed). The Head Start program originated in 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty, a larger effort to mitigate the effects of poverty in the US by providing children ages three to five years old with a range of services. The Head Start program espouses a whole child, two-generational approach to accomplish its aims. Through this approach the program seeks to bolster children's development by providing health, nutritional and educational services to children and their families.
: 2. Funds of knowledge refers to immigrant families’ everyday knowledge, expertise, and resources that can be understood and incorporated to make curriculum more relevant and more meaningful for children.