Head Start improved children’s language and literacy development during the program year but not later and had only one strongly confirmed impact on math ability in a negative direction. (For the 3-year-old cohort, kindergarten teachers reported poorer math skills for children in the Head Start group than children in the control group.)If they'd gone with Siegfried Engelmann in 1966, things would be different.
I haven't looked at the study - does anyone know how math is handled in Head Start?
ReplyDeleteMy mother-in-law teaches at Head Start. I don't know about math, but I do know she isn't allowed to teach the alphabet.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't read about the original study, that's amazing...and sad, that it's out there and ignored.
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