National Survey of Head Start Graduates and Their Peers

摘要

The current study was conducted to assess the effects of Project Head Start on children and their parents during the children's first year in elementary school. Since the last national evaluation of Head Start in 1969, the program has experimented with a variety of innovative options to improve health, social, educational and parent participation services to children and families.nIn addition to assessing Head Start children, the study also included data, for comparison purposes, from children who were enrolled in the same classrooms as the Head start gra¬duates. Data were also collected from the parents of both groups, from the elementary school teachers, and from the Head Start centers which the graduates had attended.