Head Start to Nowhere
April 26, 2010
“We’ve had 20 million children go through Head Start at a cost of $50 billion and we’ve had 600 studies of the program,” Dr. Effrem, a Minnesota pediatrician, pointed out on the last broadcast of Accuracy in Academia’s Campus Report. Those studies, Dr. Effrem notes, show that when children do show progress in the program, as measured by the U. S. Department of Education, those gains disappear after the first year of primary school.”
Read the article from “Accuracy in Academia,” October 4, 2005
Tags: Child Care, Head Start, early learning
“We’ve had 20 million children go through Head Start at a cost of $50 billion and we’ve had 600 studies of the program,” Dr. Effrem, a Minnesota pediatrician, pointed out on the last broadcast of Accuracy in Academia’s Campus Report. Those studies, Dr. Effrem notes, show that when children do show progress in the program, as measured by the U. S. Department of Education, those gains disappear after the first year of primary school.”
Read the article from “Accuracy in Academia,” October 4, 2005
Tags: Child Care, Head Start, early learning