Building Their Futures:
How Early Head Start Programs
Are Enhancing the Lives of
Infants and Toddlers in Low-Income Families

Volume I: Technical Report

Table of Contents

June 2001

The Commissioner's Office of Research and Evaluation
And the Head Start Bureau
Administration on Children, Youth and Families
Department of Health and Human Services

Prepared for:

Rachel Chazan Cohen, Helen Raikes, and Louisa Banks Tarullo
Commissioner's Office of Research and Evaluation
Administration on Children, Youth and Families
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Washington, DC

Prepared by:

Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Princeton, NJ
Under Contract DHHS-105-95-1936

Authors:

John M. Love
Ellen Eliason Kisker
Christine Ross
Peter Z. Schochet
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Columbia University
Center for Children and Families

Kimberly Boller
Diane Paulsell
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Allison Fuligni
Lisa Berlin
Columbia University
Center for Children and Families