The Head Start debates

Early educational interventions and intelligence : implications for Head Start / Craig T. Ramey and Sharon Landesman Ramey

Familiar concept, new name : social competence/school readiness as the goal of Head Start / Rebecca D.A. Schrag, Sally J. Styfco, and Edward Zigler

When psychology informs public policy : the case of early childhood intervention / Martin Woodhead

Head Start : revisiting a historical psychoeducational intervention : revisionist perspective / Irving E. Sigel

Three core concepts of the War on Poverty : their origins & significance in Head Start / Polly Greenberg

Was Head Start a community action program? : another look at an old debate / Carolyn Harmon

Early administrator's perspective on Head Start / Julius B. Richmond (with Jule M. Sugarman)

Head Start classroom as an oral language environment : what should the performance standards be? / Catherine E. Snow and Mariela M. Paez

Community-based approach to school readiness in Head Start / Chaya S. Piotrkowski

Head Start and evidence-based educational models / David P. Wiekart

Head Start's efforts to improve child health / Robert W. O'Brien, David B. Connell, and James Griffin

The challenge of mental health in Head Start : making the vision real / Jane Knitzer

A persistent pattern of progress : parent outcomes in longitudinal studies of Head Start children and families / Peggy D. Pizzo and Elizabeth Edwards Tufankjian

A parent's views on Head Start / Delores Baynes

A former Head Start student's views / U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez

Does Head Start have lasting cognitive effects? : the myth of fade-out / W. Steven Barnett

How well does Head Start prepare children to learn to read? / Grover J. Whitehurst and Greta M. Massetti

New possibilities for research on Head Start / Deborah A. Phillips and Sheldon H. White

Head Start in the 1990s : striving for quality through a decade of improvement / Joan Lombardi and Amy Stephens Cubbage

Quality in Head Start : a dream within research / Gregg Powell

Head Start : a decade of challenge and change / Judith A. Chafel, Heather L. Sugioka

Professional social work involvement in Head Start / Arthur J. Frankel

Head Start and child care : programs adapt to meet the needs of working families / Helen Blank and Nicole Oxendine Poersch

Are there better ways to spend federal child care funds to improve child outcomes? / Douglas J. Besharov

The "Failure" of Head Start / John Merrow

A Head Start for all children / Gwen Morgan

Dosage-response effects and mechanisms of change in public and model programs / Arthur J. Reynolds

The transition to school : building on preschool foundations and preparing for lifelong learning / Sharon Landesman Ramey, Craig T. Ramey, and Robin Gaines Lanzi

Early Head Start, child care, family support, and family policy / Sheila B. Kamerman and Alfred J. Kahn

The brain and child development : time for some critical thinking / John T. Bruer

Critical periods in central nervous system development / Paul J. Lombroso and Kyle D. Pruett

The environmental mystique : training the intellect versus development of the child / Edward Zigler

Coordinating Head Start with the states / Wade F. Horn

Maintaining federal to local management of Head Start / Sarah M. Greene

What can be learned from state-funded prekindergarten initiatives? : data-based approach to the Head Start devolution debate / Walter S. Gilliam and Carol H. Ripple

Caveat emptor : the Head Start scam / John Hood

The wisdom of a federal effort on behalf of impoverished children and their families / Edward Zigler and Sally J. Styfco

Head Start as a national laboratory / Christopher C. Henrich

The future of Head Start / Barbara T. Bowman.