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Download full textDwyer, Robert C.; And Others – 1972
A total of 160 five-year-old children from Head Start-eligible families were assigned to two treatments during a 6-month Head Start program. The experimental group received the Environmental Academics Program for one to one and a half hours per school day, and the ongoing Head Start program for the balance of the day. The control group received…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Environment
Quay, Lorene C. – 1993
This research review focuses on the effects of early intervention on the preschool children of low-income families, examining studies of intervention programs begun in the 1960s through the present. It then relates this analysis to the new Georgia Prekindergarten Program. The interventions reviewed are grouped into four hierarchical categories…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Disadvantaged Environment, Environmental Influences, Family Programs
