{"id":214,"date":"2015-04-09T13:14:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T13:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/edsociety\/?p=214"},"modified":"2015-04-09T13:14:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T13:14:38","slug":"not-all-head-start-programs-are-created-equal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/edsociety\/2015\/04\/09\/not-all-head-start-programs-are-created-equal\/","title":{"rendered":"Not All Head Start Programs Are Created Equal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_215\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/edsociety\/files\/2015\/04\/head-start-2.jpeg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-215\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/edsociety\/files\/2015\/04\/head-start-2.jpeg\" alt=\"Head Start gives some kids more of a head start than others.\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Head Start gives the\u00a0kids who need it most more of an advantage. Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uicskc.com\/headstart\">United Inner City Services.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Head Start, the largest federal program serving the developmental needs of low-income American children, has been controversial since its creation in 1965.\u00a0 There is good evidence that Head Start \u2014 on average \u2014 improves the school readiness of participants, at least in the short term.\u00a0 The program also has desirable longer term effects on outcomes like high school graduation, college enrollment, health, and criminal behavior.<\/p>\n<p>However, some Head Start programs may be better than others.\u00a0 And, some children may be helped by Head Start more than others.\u00a0 We know much less about differences in the effectiveness of Head Start across centers and across groups of children.<\/p>\n<p>A recent report by Howard Bloom at MDRC and Chistina Weiland at the University of Michigan addresses these two issues.\u00a0 They use data from the Head Start Impact Study, a nationally representative study that used random assignment to isolate the impacts of Head Start.<\/p>\n<p>The authors found that the effectiveness of Head Start varies substantially across centers, partly because the quality of alternatives to Head Start differs across locations.\u00a0 They argue that \u201cthe \u2018value added\u2019 by any Head Start program depends on both the program itself and the quantity and quality of other local options for early child education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the benefits of Head Start differs across groups of children. For example, children with the weakest cognitive skills and Spanish speaking children are helped most. This results in \u201ca compensatory pattern of program effects that reduced disparities in cognitive outcomes among program-eligible children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full article here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdrc.org\/about\/howard-bloom\">Howard Bloom<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soe.umich.edu\/people\/profile\/weiland_christina\/\">Christina Weiland<\/a>. 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdrc.org\/publication\/quantifying-variation-head-start-effects-young-children-s-cognitive-and-socio-emotional\"><em>Quantifying Variation in Head Start Effects on Young Children\u2019s Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Skills Using Data from the National Head Start Impact Study<\/em><\/a>. New York: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdrc.org\/mdrc-homepage\">MDRC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head Start, the largest federal program serving the developmental needs of low-income American children, has been controversial since its creation in 1965.\u00a0 There is good evidence that Head Start \u2014 on average \u2014 improves the school readiness of participants, at least in the short term.\u00a0 The program also has desirable longer term effects on outcomes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1952,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36081],"tags":[34,36114,30840,36116],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-250-words","tag-education","tag-head-start","tag-low-income","tag-school-readiness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/edsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/edsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/edsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/edsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1952"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/edsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/edsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/edsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/edsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/edsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/edsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}