The update also extends how students can use their own iPads in educational settings — enabling them to start classroom discussions or ask questions directly from their tablet, using a feature called Discussions.
Where school has started back, classrooms are now crowded.
"I had no experience using the computer before I started Connecting Classrooms, but now I am able to use the computer to some extent to prepare documents, send emails and communicate with others that are part of Connecting Classrooms," said Moses.
As Mr. Obama pointed out, Mr. Romney described as "marvelous" a budget that would drastically cut student financial aid, medical research, Head Start classrooms and environmental protections.
The downward spiral begins in Head Start classrooms, said Arlethia Perry-Johnson, the chairwoman of the initiative and an associate vice chancellor of the Georgia system.
It provided needed funds for securing nuclear weapons in Russia, preventing Head Start classrooms from closing and staving off cuts to Pell grants, among scores of other worthy programs.
Asked how he could choose between enrolling children in federal cancer trials or returning them to Head Start classrooms, Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the majority leader, said, "That's coming as well".
Wade Horn, assistant secretary for children and families at the federal Department of Health and Human Services, said the president had two main goals for reshaping Head Start: to improve coordination between Head Start and other preschool and elementary school programs around the country and to improve the quality of teaching in Head Start classrooms.
The current study was conducted in two Head Start classrooms at one childcare center in rural east Texas.
In this study, 31 Spanish-speaking preschoolers (aged 38 48 months) were randomly assigned to two Head Start classrooms differing only in the language of instruction (English and Spanish).
