ABSTRACT
The Centers for Disease Control has recently launched a follow-up study to that effort. There is also now underway a 32-site randomized trial of the Head Start/Public School Transition Program which is altering both what Head Start delivers during the time children are in Head Start and then altering in pre-planned ways what public schools provide during kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades. In addition there are approximately thirty sites funded by the Administration on Children, Youth and Families in a trial called the Comprehensive Child Development Program, to improve the child outcomes during the first three years of life for children from poor families. The findings replicate, but with a larger magnitude of effect, the Consortium for Longitudinal Studies’ findings on Special Education and grade retention reduction, and extend the findings to show that there are cognitive and economic achievement results that seem to undergird those more positive academic outcomes.
