A COMPREHENSIVE ATTACK ON FAMILIAL POVERTY1

r\.1 CD The primary aims of Project Head Start are to provide a pre-school training and health care program for disadvantaged children between the ages of 4 and 6. In evaluating the impact of Head Start Programs, one finds that where control groups are used the Head Start participants tend to score higher on various dependent measures than their controls. In some instances, however, these differences are not significant. In follow-up studies based upon I.Q. and/or achievement test scores, with few group exceptions, differences between Head Start and non-Head Start children had been reduced by the second, fourth, and sixth months after the end of the experience. Two cautionary notes should be added to these comments. First, most assessments stress cognitive- intellective development and tend to ignore social- affective outcomes. Secondly, the criteria by which these programs are judged are ofte