"Alarming", maybe: surprising, no — this has been known since Head Start began 50 years ago.
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it’s a shambles
Children who attended a state-funded pre-K program more than 10 years ago are doing worse than their peers who received other methods of education, a new study found.
"At least for poor children, it turns out that something is not better than nothing," Dale Farran, a professor in Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College, and one of the authors of the study, told the Hechinger Report. "The kinds of pre-K that our poor children are going into are not good for them long term."
The multi-year study focused on 2,990 children who attended state-funded Tennessee pre-K schools during the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years. The study, which was published by the American Psychological Association, found that those students were worse off than their peers by the time the sixth grade concluded on issues such as academic achievement, discipline issues and special education referrals.
It’s not just Tennessee:
And this:
U.S. Government: Our “Head Start” Program Doesn’t Work
Head Start, the flagship federal education program for low‐income preschoolers, doesn’t work. That is the conclusion of yet another high quality, large‐scale randomized experiment commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services, which runs the program.
Like an earlier study that found no lasting benefit to Head Start by the end of the 1st grade, this new study confirms no lasting benefit by the end of the 3rdgrade—after an investment of 47 years and about $200 billion.
And this:
May 31, 2010: Head Start Doesn’t Work
ETC. Head Start has always been a local boondoggle project run so that local politicians can distribute largess to favored adults chosen to babysit 3-4-year-olds. Biden wants to expand the program to include all American children, at no charge, while raising the pay of the babysitters to that of unionized teachers, all paid for by unicorn farts. Such a deaal.