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Placing the First-Year Findings of the National Head Start Impact Study in Context (HTML)
By Society for Research in Child Development , Ed.
2006

Summary: This report provides a summary of the first-year findings of the Head Start Impact Study. Results are discussed in the context of other research on children’s development. Data were collected after only nine months of Head Start. The positive effects of nine months of Head Start were seen in multiple aspects of child development (cognitive, social, emotional, and health) as well as parenting practices. Head Start narrowed the gap in specific aspects of pre-reading ability between children in poverty and U.S. children as a whole by 45 percent. The positive effects of Head Start on children are comparable to or larger than those of other large-scale social programs.

Index Terms: Assessment, Early Childhood Education, Head Start, Outcomes Of Child Care, Quality Initiatives, Performance Standards, Statistical Data, Head Start

Publication Type: Reference (General)

Pages: 2 pages
Language: English
URL: http://www.srcd.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&Itemid=&gid=209

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Society for Research in Child Development
University of Michigan
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Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108
734-998-6578
FAX: 734-998-6569
srcd@umich.edu
http://www.srcd.org/

 
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