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Download full textBurke, Lindsey M.; Muhlhausen, David B. – Heritage Foundation, 2013
In 2008, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) completed data collection for its third-grade follow-up study of Head Start, a federal preschool program designed to improve the kindergarten readiness of low-income children. Four years later, just before Christmas, the agency finally published the results of the congressionally mandated…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Preschool Education, Preschool Children
More Government Preschool: An Expensive and Unnecessary Middle-Class Subsidy. Backgrounder. No. 2378
Burke, Lindsey M. – Heritage Foundation, 2010
Federal spending on early childhood education and care exceeds $25 billion annually. President Obama and other proponents of taxpayer-funded universal preschool want to add $10 billion as an incentive for the states to expand their early childhood education and care programs--with the goal of giving all children access to state-subsidized…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Federal Aid, Incentives
Does Universal Preschool Improve Learning? Lessons from Georgia and Oklahoma. Backgrounder. No. 2272
Burke, Lindsey – Heritage Foundation, 2009
More than a decade after offering students universal preschool, neither Georgia nor Oklahoma has shown impressive progress in student academic achievement, as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. As Congress considers whether the federal government should encourage states to offer universal preschool, the author advocates…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Federal Government, Preschool Education, Educational Improvement
