Nick Kriskof in todays New York Times on the great research about Head Start! Early education has always had an impact not through cognitive gains but through long-term improvements in life outcomes. With Perry, Abecedarian and other programs, educational gains fade, yet, mysteriously, there are often long-term improvements on things that matter even more, such as arrest rates and high school graduation rates. The Head Start Impact Study couldn’t examine those outcomes. Other researchers have, and their findings are almost unanimous.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:39:28 +0000
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