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The Follow Through Program
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Kennedy, Mary M. – Curriculum Inquiry, 1977
The story of the national evaluation of the Follow Through program mirrors the difficulties in trying to evaluate a complex social program that changed its community service orientation to a strategy of planned variation of early childhood programs. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Experiments, Federal Programs
The Effectiveness of Follow Through: Evidence from the National Analysis
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Anderson, Richard B. – Curriculum Inquiry, 1977
Abt Associates, the firm responsible for the primary analysis of the Follow Through experiment, summarize the findings. Their clearest finding indicates that local circumstances, attitudes, and activities unmeasured by evaluation have much more to do with the effectiveness of Follow Through models, without exception, than do their theoretical…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Educational Experiments