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Article: Head Start Children Not Adequately Prepared for School, HHS Report Concludes
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- June 9, 2003
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WASHINGTON, June 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Head Start children are not
adequately prepared for school, and those who have been in the
program still enter kindergarten lagging far behind the typical
American child in skills needed for school readiness, according to a
report released today by the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services.
The gap between Head Start children and the general population of
pre-school age children does narrow during the Head Start year on key
components of school readiness. In addition, Head Start children do
benefit from increased social skills as well as the comprehensive
health and other benefits delivered through the program. But Head
Start students still ...