Sharing My Web Resources

This week has been interesting reading my web resource.  I have been reading the e-newsletter on the web site of National Head Start.  To answer the questoin for this week Head Start helped me get a feel of being and advocate and learning how congress handled the budget back in November, 2011 for Head Start.  Considering the questions for this week

What specific section or information seemed particularly relevant to your current professional development.
Becoming an advocate for Head Start is part of my professional development.  I would like to help and learn how to become the advocate to develop me professionally.  I like Head Start and what it have to offer for children of low income families.  A section in the e-newsletter gave a shout out to some advocates that gathered in Washington, D.C. to speak to congress about the importance of the programs in the district for Head Start. 

What ideas/statements/resource/either website or in the e-newsletter did you find controversial or made you think about an issue in new ways.
In the newsletter, many of the articles were about funds and keeping funds.  If  Head Start is not well funded how are we to educate those children that are low income before the age of three to five.  So to me these funds need to still be in Head Start to keep this age group in school.

What information does the website or the e-newsletter contain that adds to your understanding of how economists, neuroscientists, or politicians support early childhood field.
In the newsletter back in August, congress finally reached an agreement on raising the federal debt ceiling and managing the federal budget.  Which means that Head Start is facing a battle to avoid major cuts.  Currently, members of Head Start, administrators, and parents are asked to advocate Head Start to let politicians know how these cuts will effect Head Start.

Other new insights I gained.  Head Start has been around for sometimes and it should continue receiving funds for the sake of children and their families.  As I was closing I opened a letter from James J. Heckman, professor of Economics at the University of Chicago.  He state that our nation spends billions of dollars on home land security, but we should and must deliver greater value to taxpayers investment.  Human Capital is the greatest investment.  The children, birth to age five, are of a disadvantage families are cost efficient and effective investment from preventing problems in education, health, social and economic productivity.

http.//www.nhsa.org/news-and-advocacy-/legistative-eupdate/government-affaris-week-of -August-4-2011
http.//nhsa.org/file/static-age-file/heckman-letter-federal-commission-9-1-2010

Getting to Know My International Contact

I have not made a definite contact with anyone.  I have sent emails address and still no respond.  So this week I looked at the web site for childhood poverty in China.  I found that China is a rich country and that 5 percent lived below the poverty line in the year of 2001.  From those stats, 4.2 million children live in absolute poverty.  Also, the children in China that live in a disadvantage lively hood is 8.7 millions.  These children were account for in counts of 2001.  After reading about China, I know that China was a really rich county doing something for their children.  The poverty is due to the social transition and the slow economic growth with. their country.

As I read this lesson and other counties this week, I makes me hard to believe that these number could be true about poverty.  I have overtly is right in your face and we do not realize it. 

Sharing My Web Resourse

Today I have taken interest in the Head Start field. Head Start hels many children with the foundation of learning.  I attend Head Start and my mom worked for Head Start when they first come to our county in 1969.  I have children but they were not able to attend the school.

The newsletter that I subscribe is the National Head Start Association and the link is http://www.nhsa.org/news_and_advocacy/advocacy/legislative_eupdate.  The focus of Head Start is to service children from the age of 3 to 5.  Some Head Starts have a Early Head Start.  This program service children 6 weeks to a year.  All those served are students that are from low income families.  Today Head Start serves over 700,000 children throughout the United States.  Head Start programs are design to help children develop socially, cognitively, emotionally, and phyically.  Also, Head Start is about Family Services.  The help parents to get work or GEDs.Many children that have gone through the program has become very productive citizens.

In the letter, Head Start focus on funding for the 2012 year.  They are asking all advocates to write a window to their congressman and tell how Head Start has halp them in some kind of way.  Also, January is Family service month.  Family service month is design to help parent prepare tax forms.

Establishing professional Contact and Expanding Resources

I guess I am like all of you trying to make contact and not succeeding.  I did sent two emails out to Africa and their is still no resonse  I saw that the NAEYC were affiliates with the African global allianace  and I decided I would like to see how the children in Africa were taught in early stages and were some of their issues and trends in Africa.  if this nation is so much in need for food, clothing , and some need for home, what were some of the other changes that could take the nation to some other changes.  I did like to a podcat.  This was interesting but I will only report on it if and only if my two contacts do not contact me.

Expanding Resources
The resource I choose ia the National Head Start Association newsletter.  I am working on my masters hoeing to become the director of a Head Start Center or a facilitator for some early childhood workshop. Being a reader of the National Newsletter, then I can keep up the latest on what is going on nationally and locally.