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Publications & Reports
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Celebrating
Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Head Start: This study
investigates diversity in the language and culture of the Head Start
population and identifies the range of services provided to them.
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Comprehensive
Child Development Program: This section includes the CCDP Impact
Evaluation Report and the CCDP Process Study Report, both designed
to evaluate the CCDP, which tested whether a community service program
could identify low-income family needs and refer these families
to various services.
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Descriptive
Study of Head Start Health Services: This study provides a "national
snapshot" of how local Head Start programs meet the medical, dental,
nutritional, and mental health needs of the children and families
they serve.
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Early
Head Start Research & Evaluation Project Reports: This link
provides access to Early Head Start reports including "Building
Their Futures: How Early Head Start Programs Are Enhancing the Lives
of Infants and Toddlers in Low-Income Families" (Summary Report,
Volume I and Volume II), and "Leading the Way: Characteristics
and Early Experience of Selected Early Head Start Programs"
(Executive Summary, and Volumes I, II, and III)
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Evaluation
of Head Start Family Child Care Demonstration: This study evaluates
whether services provided in family child care homes met Head Start
Program Performance Standards and compares the outcomes for children
and families participating in family child care homes to the outcomes
for those participating in center classroom-based programs.
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Evaluation
of the Head Start/Public School Early Childhood Transition Demonstration:
This demonstration assists low income students in kindergarten through
third grade and their families in obtaining supportive services,
and it supports the active involvement of parents in the education
of their children.
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Family
and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) Reports: This link provides
access to Head Start FACES: Second and Third Progress Reports, "FACES
Findings: New Research on Head Start Program Quality and Outcomes,"
and related archived reports, including "The First Progress
Report on Head Start Program Performance Measures."
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Head
Start Impact Reports: This link provides access to Head Start
Impact's first and second "Report to the Congress", "Building
Futures: The Head Start Impact Study Research Design Plan,"
and more.
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Infant
Mental Health Report and Literature Review: This page provides
information on efforts undertaken by the Head Start Bureau to understand
and address the mental health needs of infants and toddlers, and
includes a report and a literature review generated for the Infant
Mental Health Forum held in October 2000.
- Reaching
Out to Families: Head Start Recruitment and Enrollment Practices:
This report describes the results of a project that examined the Head
Start recruitment and enrollment efforts from a variety of perspectives.
The findings of this study should facilitate current practice and
future research on the recruitment and enrollment of the families
most in need of Head Start Services.
Consortia/Research Partnership
Pending Publications
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Family Service
Center Demonstration: These reports evaluate family child care
programs to determine whether services provided meet the Head Start
Program Performance Standards.
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Migrant Head Start Study (available soon):
This descriptive study of seasonal farmworker families identifies
and compares the needs of migrant and seasonal farm workers and
provides national and state level estimates of the number of Head
Start eligible seasonal and migrant farmworker children in the U.S.
Other Related Resources
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Annotated
Bibliography of Head Start Research: This online bibliography
contains a summary of Head Start research from 1985 to present.
It includes both quantitative and qualitative research studies,
as well as descriptive studies on specific Head Start programs and
processes.
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Head
Start Bureau Research and Statistics: This site provides links
to research within the Head Start Bureau.
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Head
Start Data Archive: This CORE project maintains datasets on
Head Start research and evaluation projects that have been submitted
by project principal investigators.
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Longitudinal
Research on Infant and Toddler Interventions: An Annotated Bibliography:
This online bibliography contains research on early intervention
efforts aimed at the infant to toddler range and describes their
effectiveness.
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Program Manager's
Guide to Evaluation: This guide explains the program evaluation
process and provides background information on how to use it successfully.
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Program
Performance Measures for Head Start Programs Serving Infants and
Toddlers: A framework is presented that outlines intended goals
for management systems, services and outcomes for children and families
in Head Start programs serving infants and toddlers (Early Head
Start and Migrant Head Start). This framework is designed to support
continuous program improvement efforts of individual programs as
well as at the regional and national levels. Information is provided
for programs on creating a performance measurement plan, including
guidelines for choosing appropriate measures and detailed information
on selected instruments.
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