Something Better for My Children: How Head Start Has Changed the Lives of Millions of Children

By Kay Mills

Book Overview

"Something Better for my Children" shows the human side of the Head Start program. To learn what really goes on in Head Start centers, Kay Mills visited programs around the country, from inner-city Los Angeles to an Indian reservation in Montana.Mills provides a revealing look at what Head Start has accomplished, answering questions about what has worked, what hasn't, and why. Thorough in its explanation of history and policy, "Something Better for my Children" is an important and timely book for anyone with an interest in the betterment of our nation's future.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452278473
• ISBN13: 9780452278479
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Plume
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.9" x 5.6"

Customer Reviews

An inside view of Project Head Start

Mills does a wonderful job of giving an inside picture of Project head Start. In this book she follows a group of children through the entire program year. She tells the story of Head Start in a very realistic way. I am an education coordinator for Head Start in a Michigan program and felt that her depiction of the program rang true. She also offerred me insight into how other Head Start programs are working on the challenges that face all of us. One of my favorite parts was her description of President Johnson's role in the creation of Head Start as well as his visits to a center that was near the LBJ ranch. She makes the progam come alive through the people who work in it and the children who are served by it. Great book.