Head Start: Still Useless...

[4est_4est_Gump]

... from the Educational goal but still very useful as a political badge of honor.

How so? From the program’s inception in 1965, politicians of every political stripe have learned that they can burnish their poverty-fighting credentials simply by bestowing an endless series of funding increases on Head Start. On cue, sympathetic political commentators, academics, and the beneficiaries of Head Start grants reinforce this dynamic by turning any serious discussion of Head Start’s effectiveness into an unforgiving political minefield. Dare to question its efficacy or propose reforms to improve Head Start’s outcomes (say, by proposing to strengthen the academic qualifications of Head Start teachers) and you’ll feel the wrath of the Head Start Industrial Complex.

Yet the facts about the matter are well established. Our $8 billion–per–year “investment” in Head Start ($180 billion in all since its creation) yields no discernable advantage for the children it is meant to help.

Questions concerning Head Start’s effectiveness have plagued it throughout its history. And, sadly, so long as there have been gold-plated, double-blind, peer-reviewed evaluations of Head Start, there have been politicians who would rather use the program to advance their careers than confront the real-world consequences of failing 1 million poor kids each year.

Based on yet another new study demonstrating its uselessness as an Educational tool.

http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/337924

This time, researchers expanded on previous tracking studies of kids in Head Start, which had stopped at the first-grade level. By measuring the program’s impact on 5,000 three- and four-year-old children all the way through third grade, researchers have given lawmakers a state-of-the-art assessment of the long-term impact of Head Start, one that ought to guide them as they ponder allocating additional billions of dollars to the program.

The findings are most discouraging. “By the end of 3rd grade,” the study’s authors report, “there were very few impacts found . . . in any of the four domains of cognitive, social-emotional, health, and parenting practices.” The researchers measured a total of 142 outcomes in these four domains and concluded that, within a few years, access to Head Start had no measurable impact on all but six outcomes. Moreover, even in those six, “there was no clear pattern of favorable or unfavorable impacts for children.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

My head never starts until the third cup of coffee . . . .

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

*chuckle*

 

[Wat_Tyler]

. . . and Grumpy Cat.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

 

[XdOu™]

thanks for the info

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

tee hee...



That's why I'm in management!

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I need a job . . . .​

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Her problem is self-esteem...



If you're putting a bumper-sticker on it, it ain't a Porsche...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

• Pell grants. Paying people to go to college instead of to work is traditionally justified on the grounds that higher education builds "human capital" that is vital for the country's economic future. But a study Christopher Denhart, Jonathan Robe and I did for the Center for College Affordability and Productivity (that will be released soon) shows that nearly half of four-year college graduates today work in jobs that the Labor Department has determined do not require a college degree. For example, over one million "retail sales persons" and 115,000 "janitors and cleaners" are college graduates.

In 2000, fewer than 3.9 million young men and women received Pell Grant awards to attend college. The number rose one-third, to 5.2 million by 2005, and increased a million more by 2008. In the next three years, however, the number grew over 50%, to an estimated 9.7 million. That is nearly six million more than a decade earlier. The result is fewer people in the work force. Meanwhile the mismatch grows between the number of college graduates and the jobs that require a college education.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324461604578193141690993174.html?mod=rss_opinion_main

 

[mercury14]

... from the Educational goal but still very useful as a political badge of honor.



Based on yet another new study demonstrating its uselessness as an Educational tool.

http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/337924

You take the studies you that fit your "it's useless" narrative and ignore the ones that show that Head Start actually is effective. Then you declare the body of research to conclusively support what you want to believe.

You're a fraud.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

My self-esteem is just fine, Honey.


I passed the classes and got the certificate.​

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I don't see no bumper sticker on her...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.
Frédéric Bastiat

Камрад Меркурий доброго утра.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The Forgotten Man is "worthy, industrious, independent, and self-supporting. He is not, technically, 'poor' or 'weak'; he minds his own business and makes no complaint." Because of all of this, "the philanthropists never think of him and trample on him[.]"
William Graham Sumner (as quoted by Jack Kerwick)

 

[Wat_Tyler]

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Cute...


☆☆☆✫

 

[Wat_Tyler]

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Just give my head a start!

 

[XdOu™]

I need a job . . . .​

lol @ her travolta chin! hahah

 

[Wat_Tyler]

What do you think this license plate really means???


Pimp me out, Baby!!!​

 

[XdOu™]

^ i pass

 

[Luna_Wolf72]

lol @ her travolta chin! hahah

I did not even NOTICE the chin til you pointed it out.

 

[Wat_Tyler]