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Improving Family Literacy: Findings from the National Even Start Evaluation (PDF)
By Dennis Deck, Stephen Murray, Robert G St.Pierre, Janet P Swartz
September
1996
Summary: This report describes findings from the National Even Start Evaluation. Almost all Even Start projects offered three required core instructional services: adult education, parenting education, and early childhood education. They also offered instructional services in a home-based setting, services to parents and children together, and appropriate support services to enable families to participate fully in Even Start’s core services. Even Start projects provide a wide range of services to help parents understand and enrich their child’s development. The number of families participating in Even Start has increased over time. This is due both to the addition of new projects and to improved efficiency within existing projects. There is a strong positive relationship between the amount of home-based service provided by a project and retention/participation in Even Start. Program retention increased from about 40 percent in projects that provided no home-based services, to about 70 percent in projects that provided two-thirds or more of their services in the home. Even Start projects may have been effective in improving the functional literacy of participating adults, but the results from this evaluation were not conclusive. Even Start families that were intensively engaged in core services did better than families with lower levels of participation. Contains 25 references.
Index Terms: Adult Education, Development, Family Literacy, Literacy Programs, Low Income Families, Even Start
Publisher: Abt Associates Inc.
Publication Type: Reports (Descriptive)
Pages: 16 pages
Language: English
URL: http://www.abtassoc.com/reports/paper5.pdf
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