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Educational Involvement Among Latino Head Start Families

Description:
New York University will investigate how educational involvement among Head Start Latino families contributes to young children's subsequent language and literacy development. The specific goals of the project are to: (a) uncover the family literacy patterns of Head Start Latino households in New York City; (b) understand how family literacy contributes to Latino children's emergent literacy over time; and (c) work in partnership with Head Start teachers and parents to create a strengths-based family literacy project and to determine the influence the project will have on parental satisfaction with and participation in a family literacy program and teachers' perceptions of parents' educational involvement. The project will collect family literacy data on 90 Latino families to assess family literacy patterns and children's literacy skills. The first wave of the project will involve culturally appropriate observations and surveys conducted through home visits to investigate family literacy patterns. In the second wave, the project will assess children's literacy skills as a function of family literacy practices. The third and final wave of the study will incorporate previous findings to develop a family literacy program for Latino children. Results of the project are expected to advance knowledge about Latino children's literacy development and provide information about how Head Start programs could improve services for Latino Families.
Resource Type:
Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
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