THIRD GRADE FOLLOW-UP TO THE
HEAD START IMPACT STUDY, FINAL REPORT, OPRE
(Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation
Administration for Children and Families U.S. Department of Health and Human Services), Report
2012-45
This HHS report has been misinterpreted to have
documented that by third grade the benefit of having attended a Head Start
program is negligible.
That selectively ignores that this report is only
about 3 or 4 year olds in and out of Head Start programs through 3rd
grade only. Other studies, quite a few
listed in the report (skip to the Executive Summary’s Final
Thoughts), suggest that there is significant longer term benefit to having
attended a Head Start program as a child.
You can get some really interesting results by
editing based on one’s ideological biases!!!
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