Head Start and Preschool Education: Toward Continued Improvement.

Ramey, Sharon Landesman

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ERIC Number: EJ588962

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Publication Date: 1999

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Head Start and Preschool Education: Toward Continued Improvement.

Ramey, Sharon Landesman

American Psychologist, v54 n5 p344-46 May 1999

Findings by C. Ripple and colleagues justify a continued role for the federal Head Start program, but only if Head Start invests seriously and consistently in high-quality programs and ends the present fragmentation of services. Calls for effective technical assistance to programs and active collaboration with other agencies. (SLD)

Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Educational Policy, Federal Government, Government Role, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Program Evaluation, School Readiness, State Programs

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