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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (6266)	3/13/2001 7:54:39 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 59480

Head Start does have some advantages. It provides a safe place for children some of whom have no save place at home. It provides a structured environment for children many of whose parents impose little or no structure on them. It offers interaction with, if the Head Start teacher is any good, an educated adult who values learning and education. It provides hot, nutritious meals. It helps children learn to interact with other children in positive ways. Or, I should say, done right it does these things -- like all institutions, some are better than others. What Head Start does NOT do is have much if any long term impact on the child's learning to read. All the studies I have seen show that by third grade it's impossible to identify in the reading scores which children went to Head Start and which didn't. I have never advocated getting rid of the program. But what we need to do is recognize what it's good at and focus on those things, not waste money and resources trying to get it to do things it can't do, or that make no difference in children's lives.