{"id":267331,"date":"2010-02-02T19:12:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T00:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/media-continues-ignore-head-start-s-failing-evaluation-38947\/"},"modified":"2010-02-02T19:12:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T00:12:09","slug":"media-continues-to-ignore-head-start%c2%92s-failing-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/267331","title":{"rendered":"Media Continues to Ignore Head Start\u0092s Failing Evaluation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On 02.02.10 01:00 PM posted by Dan Lips<\/p>\n<p>\n&lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Child-Care100126.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;imgsrc=&quot;http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Child-Care100126.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;Child-Care100126&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; height=&quot;350&quot; class=&quot;alignnone size-full wp-image-24666&quot; \/&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;Credit the Pittsburgh Tribune Review for being one of the nation\u0092s first newspapers to editorialize about &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/wwwheritage.org\/Research\/Education\/bg2363.cfm http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Education\/bg2363.cfm&quot;&gt;last month\u0092s national Head Start evaluation, which found that the program provided children with zero lasting benefits.<\/p>\n<p>They editors &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/pittsburghtrib\/opinion\/s_664746.html#&quot;&gt;write:  \u0093That it took the feds more than 40 years for a proper analysis suggests it&#8217;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&#8217;s one.\u0094<\/p>\n<p>Yet most national media outlets continue to ignore this story.   The evaluation\u0097the most rigorous evaluation of one of the nation\u0092s largest and long-standing \u0093war on poverty\u0094 education programs which has received $167 billion since 1965\u0097has still not been covered by the USA Today, The Washington Post, The New York Times, or The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/02\/media-continues-to-ignore-head-start%e2%80%99s-failing-evaluation\/\" >http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/02\/&#8230;ng-evaluation\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 02.02.10 01:00 PM posted by Dan Lips &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Child-Care100126.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;imgsrc=&quot;http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Child-Care100126.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;Child-Care100126&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; height=&quot;350&quot; class=&quot;alignnone size-full wp-image-24666&quot; \/&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;Credit the Pittsburgh Tribune Review for being one of the nation\u0092s first newspapers to editorialize about &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/wwwheritage.org\/Research\/Education\/bg2363.cfm http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Education\/bg2363.cfm&quot;&gt;last month\u0092s national Head Start evaluation, which found that the program provided children with zero lasting benefits. They editors &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/pittsburghtrib\/opinion\/s_664746.html#&quot;&gt;write: \u0093That it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}