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    The Effectiveness of Early Intervention Programs

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    Capstone paper (668.2Kb)
    Date
    2011
    Author
    Helms, Caroline
    Subject
    Head Start programs
    Education, Preschool
    Early childhood education
    Poverty
    Perry Preschool Project (Ypsilanti, Mich.)
    Child-Parent Center Program (Chicago, Ill.)
    Achievement gap, research, practice, and policy
    Washington and Lee University -- Capstone in Shepherd Poverty Program
    Carolina Abecedarian Project
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    Capstone; [FULL-TEXT FREELY AVAILABLE ONLINE]
     
    Early education programs are the most promising measure to invest in America’s schools. It is a method by which the cycle of poverty can be stopped before the detrimental educational, mental, and social effects of living in poverty have time to set it. It also provides the opportunity for children from low socioeconomic backgrounds to build their capability to a level at which they would never achieve if they spent some of their most formative developmental years in the poor-quality preschools that their parents are able to afford. . . . Although there is significant promise in these early intervention education programs, there are still a multitude of problems in the education programs that exist. Head Start is a national program intended to provide a stimulating preschool environment to help underprivileged children enter school at the same level as their more advantaged peers. However, with the startling achievement gap that still exists in America, it is clear that Head Start, and state-run prekindergarten programs like it, is not achieving its goal. Therefore, this paper takes a look at several of the more successful early intervention programs, and drawing on the costs and benefits of each, concludes with recommendations to improve these programs that are the best way to invest in today’s children. Washington and Lee University. [From Introduction]
     
    Caroline Helms
     
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