Something Better for My Children: The History and People of Head Start

By Kay Mills

Remember the War on Poverty? Lyndon Johnson declared it in 1965, even as that other war in Vietnam was escalating under his stewardship. Thirty years later, we have a memorial in Washington, D.C., to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525943285
• ISBN13: 9780525943280
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Dutton Adult
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 1.3" x 6.3"

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.