The first words I uttered after successfully defending my dissertation were, “Wow, what a ride. From Head Start to Ph.D.!” Saying them reminded me where it all began: sitting cross-legged with a picture book at the Westside Head Start Center, just a few blocks from my childhood home in Jackson, Mississippi.  I don’t remember every […] The post OPINION: Head Start ‘changed our lives’: A newly minted Ph.D. reflects on why this program must be saved  appeared first on The Hechinger Report.