<ahref="http://blog.heritage.org/wp-content/uploads/Child-Care100126.jpg"><imgsrc="http://blog.heritage.org/wp-content/uploads/Child-Care100126.jpg" alt="" title="Child-Care100126" width="300" height="350" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-24666" /></p>Credit the Pittsburgh Tribune Review for being one of the nations first newspapers to editorialize about <ahref="http://wwwheritage.org/Research/Education/bg2363.cfm http://www.heritage.org/Research/Education/bg2363.cfm">last months national Head Start evaluation, which found that the program provided children with zero lasting benefits.
They editors <ahref="http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_664746.html#">write: That it took the feds more than 40 years for a proper analysis suggests it’s the spending that matters, not results. And yet Congress is moving ahead to increase early childhood education programs with $8 billion in new spending. Mr. Obama has said, repeatedly, that federal programs without benefit should be dumped. Well, Mr. President, here’s one.
Yet most national media outlets continue to ignore this story. The evaluationthe most rigorous evaluation of one of the nations largest and long-standing war on poverty education programs which has received $167 billion since 1965has still not been covered by the USA Today, The Washington Post, The New York Times, or The Wall Street Journal.