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Article: Head Start Experiments
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Head Start Experiments
CHALLENGES OF PROGRAM EVALUATION
EARLY EVALUATION EFFORTS
LATER EVALUATION EFFORTS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
With growing concern about the number of children living in poverty in the United States, the Head Start program was initiated in 1965 as Project Head Start, one component in the
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war on poverty.
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Originally conceived as an eight-week summer pilot program implemented in nearly 2,500 communities across the country, the first trial served 500,000 four- and five-year-old children. From this initial beginning, Head Start programs quickly expanded to nine-month and even full-year programs, either half-day or full-day. As of 2006, the Head Start program served ...