Burr: Show us the research
Last week, North Carolina Senator Richard Burr and four of his colleagues in the U.S. Senate sent a letter to Kathleen Sebelius to request that the Department of Health of Human Services (DHHS) release...
View ArticleBad news = Friday before Christmas release
Today, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Department of Health and Human Services, released the “Third Grade Follow-up to the Head Start Impact Study Final Report.” Why would ACF...
View ArticleObama: More government preschool please
From the 2013 State of the Union Address, Study after study shows that the sooner a child begins learning, the better he or she does down the road. But today, fewer than 3 in 10 four year-olds are...
View ArticleWhite House unclear about the scope of preschool proposal
The White House Blog has a post titled “What You Need to Know About President Obama’s Plan to Provide High-Quality Early Education for All Children.” Frankly, the blog post does not provide what we...
View ArticleNACO misinformation on Head Start
The National Association of Counties (NACO) publishes a monthly newsletter titled County News. This month’s edition had a short blurb about the 5 percent budget cut to Head Start, which was triggered...
View ArticleHead Start Needs More Than ‘Sequester’ Pain
Education Week reports today on ‘sequester’ pain being felt by the “Great Society Relic” Head Start. Head Start is a federal preschool program to prepare low-income children for kindergarten...
View ArticleShould we celebrate Head Start’s 50th anniversary?
Answering the above question depends on whether the $8 billion program actually produces lasting benefits for low-income children. In an interview with PBS Newshour, Russ Whitehurst, Senior Fellow at...
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