Experts: Head Start Programs

Expert Perspectives: Child policy experts answer your questions about Head
Start

The Head Start program is perhaps the most well-known early childhood
program in the United States. Despite hundreds of research studies conducted
on the Head Start program over nearly half a century, controversy remains
regarding the effectiveness of Head Start in achieving its multidimensional
goal of promoting school readiness by providing educational, health,
nutritional, social and other services to enrolled children and families.
Recently published first grade follow-up results of the Head Start Impact
Study have refueled this debate with the finding that Head Start
participants achieve cognitive gains at the end of their Head Start year
that fade out by the end of the first grade year.

In PPN's newest Expert Perspectives feature, we invite you to ask three
leading experts your questions about Head Start's effectiveness. Be sure to
visit the Expert Perspectives page to submit your question to the experts
and to read the related information PPN has to offer on this topic,
including our new issue brief and program summary on Head Start, and our
newly updated program summary on Early Head Start.

Visit the Head Start experts page to submit your question and read more
about Head Start:
http://www.promisingpractices.net/experts/experts_headstart.asp