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Head Start and Beyond - A National Plan for Extended Childhood Intervention (Paperback, New Ed)
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Head Start and Beyond - A National Plan for Extended Childhood Intervention (Paperback, New Ed)
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For almost thirty years, the U.S. government has funded education
programs to help disadvantaged children succeed in school. In this
important new book, Edward Zigler, one of the leading figures in
this effort, and his associates evaluate the three existing
programs (Head Start, Follow Through, and Chapter 1), Senator
Edward Kennedy describes the newly created Head Start Transition
Project, and the authors propose a bold plan to redirect and
consolidate the programs in order to achieve a coherent,
comprehensive policy for the nation's impoverished young children.
The authors conclude that the Head Start model has been effective
in enhancing the social competence and school success of poor
children. They argue that Follow Through, which was intended to be
a national program, now represents a tiny experiment in education
that is too minimally funded to have an impact. And Chapter 1,
which exists in over 90 percent of the nation's school districts
and is massively funded, has become a supplementary funding program
for local schools rather than a demonstrably effective educational
treatment. The new Head Start Transition Project plans to extend
Head Start's health and other support services, its efforts to
involve parents, and its creative programming and evaluation to
children in kindergarten through third grade. The authors suggest
an alternative plan: that the huge Chapter 1 program adopt the
model of the Transition Project and become the school-age version
of Head Start, creating a well-funded, coordinated, and
cost-effective series of interventions with unified goals and
comprehensive services to meet the needs of poor children from the
preschool years through the early elementary grades.
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