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US: Head Start Prevents Foster Care? To Be Decided
Chronicle of Social Change – October 30, 2017
The jury is decidedly out on the academic track record of Head Start, the education-oriented pre-school program for low-income families invented in the 1960s and federally proliferated in the early 1980s. Critics will point to large impact studies that show early academic gains fade by third grade. Proponents will say that those gains would stick if the students ended up in better public schools. But Youth Services Insider had never seen Head Start mentioned as a possible preventer of foster care, until a recent study authored by Sacha Klein, Lauren Fries and Mary Emmons.
https://chronicleofsocialchange.org/subscriber-content/head-start-foster-care-prevention-tbd/28557