Tuesday, January 29, 2013

The Corner - National Review Online

The Corner - National Review Online: "I’ll just admit up front that the vast inequities that exist even before children start school bother me, and that I am predisposed to favor programs that would help disadvantaged children early in life. Thus, I was delighted when Head Start announced some years back that it was going to carry out a randomized control trial–that is, to assign some preschool children randomly to Head Start and others not–so that it would be possible to do a statistically meaningful test of how well Head Start worked.  I presumed that the test would provide ammunition for my pre-existing views.

But as the evidence has built up, Head Start is failing its test."

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