{"id":425737,"date":"2010-03-14T03:36:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T07:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f88\/head-start-earns-f-no-lasting-impact-children-first-grade-40840\/"},"modified":"2010-03-14T03:36:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T07:36:07","slug":"head-start-earns-an-f-no-lasting-impact-for-children-by-first-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/425737","title":{"rendered":"Head Start Earns an F: No Lasting Impact for Children by First Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On 01.20.10 08:00 PM posted by <\/p>\n<p>\n        [1]Dan Lips, &quot;Reforming and Improving Federal Preschool and Child Care Programs Without Increasing the Deficit,&quot; Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2297, July 13,<\/p>\n<p><b>Abstract:<\/b> <i>Recently released results from the Head Start<\/i> <i>Impact Study indicate that the benefits of participating in Head Start almost completely disappear by first grade. While other studies have previously assessed Head Start&#8217;s effectiveness, this is the only study that used a rigorous experimental design. Given this strongly negative evaluation, Congress should reconsider spending more than $9 billion per year on a program that produces few positive lasting effects. Furthermore, instead of creating yet another new federal preschool program at a cost of $8 billion, Congress and the Obama Administration should focus on terminating, consolidating, and reforming existing preschool and child care programs to better serve children&#8217;s needs and to improve efficiency for taxpayers.<\/i> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Reports\/2010\/01\/Head-Start-Earns-an-F-No-Lasting-Impact-for-Children-by-First-Grade\" >http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Rep&#8230;by-First-Grade<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 01.20.10 08:00 PM posted by [1]Dan Lips, &quot;Reforming and Improving Federal Preschool and Child Care Programs Without Increasing the Deficit,&quot; Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2297, July 13, Abstract: Recently released results from the Head Start Impact Study indicate that the benefits of participating in Head Start almost completely disappear by first grade. While other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425737","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\/4299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}