CHAPTER 6 Head Start: Growing beyond the War on Poverty

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables vii
4. Figures viii
5. Preface ix
6. PART I RECONSIDERING LBJ’S DOMESTIC POLICIES
7. CHAPTER 1 Understanding Lyndon Johnson’s Neglected Legacies 3
8. CHAPTER 2 Remembering LBJ: One Historian’s Thoughts on Johnson’s Place in the Pantheon of Presidents 21
9. PART II DEFINING CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION
10. CHAPTER 3 Ending Jim Crow, Attacking Ghetto Walls 31
11. CHAPTER 4 Expansion and Contraction in LBJ’s Voting Rights Legacy 98
12. CHAPTER 5 An Unexpected Legacy: The Positive Consequences of LBJ’s Immigration Policy Reforms 124
13. PART III EDUCATION, HEALTH, AND SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY
14. CHAPTER 6 Head Start: Growing beyond the War on Poverty 153
15. CHAPTER 7 Lyndon Johnson and American Education 187
16. CHAPTER 8 The Health Care Legacy of the Great Society 235
17. CHAPTER 9 LBJ’s Legacy in Contemporary Social Welfare Policy: Have We Come Full Circle? 259
18. PART IV CITIES, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND SCIENCE POLICY
19. CHAPTER 10 Lyndon Johnson and the Cities 283
20. CHAPTER 11 The Past and Future of the Johnson Administration’s Water Quality Policies 311
21. CHAPTER 12 LBJ, Science, Technology Policy, and Lessons for the Future 346
22. PART V IMPROVING PUBLIC MANAGEMENT
23. CHAPTER 13 Reform of the Federal Government: Lessons for Change Agents 373
24. CHAPTER 14 Constructing Effectiveness: The Emergence of the Evaluation Research Industry 397
25. PART VI CONCLUSIONS
26. CHAPTER 15 Fifty Years Later: Legacies and Lessons of LBJ’s Domestic Policies 427
27. Acknowledgments 451
28. Contributors 453
29. Index 457