Monday, January 27, 2014

The Dubious Promise of Universal Preschool

The Head Start program has been evaluated using the most sophisticated research designs available to social scientists, and the results have been disappointing. While Head Start appears to produce modest positive effects during the preschool years, these effects do not last even into kindergarten, much less through the early elementary years. These findings suggest that, if a new universal preschool program is to have greater success, something about the new program will have to be different.

http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-dubious-promise-of-universal-preschool

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