The Administration For Children And Families Reports…
that students who are in the Head Start program show academic gains while in the program. The latest data they looked at was from the 2003 school year. Scores Such as vocabulary went up for all races looked at.
When they looked at some older data to compare with the 2003 school year data it shows that students are able to indentify more letters of the alphabet. 10.1 letters in spring of 2004 versus 7.2 letters in the spring of 1998.
