Attack on Head Start

07/14/2011

Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire

"Head Start Doesn't Work. What do you do when a beloved program doesn't produce results?" This provocative headline appeared on Joe Klein's column in Time (July 18, 2011). In the column he said...

"According to the Head Start Impact Study, which was quite comprehensive, the positive effects of the program were minimal and vanished by the end of first grade. Head Start graduates performed about the same as students of similar income and social status who were not part of the program...

"...in these straitened times, we need world class education programs, from infancy on up. But we can no longer afford to be sloppy about dispensing cash -- whether its subsidies for oil companies or Head Start -- to programs that do not produce a return."

The National Head Start Association has taken strong exception to this and similar interpretations of the Impact Study. We encourage you to read the Klein piece as well as the letter to the editor by Yasmina Vinci, the Executive Director of NHSA; as well Vinci's analysis of the findings of the Study.

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