Head Start programs

Overview

Influence: Head Start programs
Domain: School
Sub-Domain: Pre-school interventions
Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have positive impact
Influence Definition: Created in 1965 during the so-called "War on Poverty," and reauthorized in 1994 as Early Head Start (EHS), this program provides comprehensive educational support to three- and four-year-old children in the United States at no cost.

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title	Author	Article Name	Year Published	Variable	Number of Studies	Number of Students	Number of Effects	Effect Size
Report	Harrell	The effects of the Head Start Program on children's cognitive development. Preliminary report. Head Start evaluation, synthesis and utilization project	1983	Head start programs	71	NA	449	0.42
Conference paper	Collins	Head Start: a review of research with implications for practice in early childhood education	1984	Head start programs	67	NA	271	0.27
Report	McKey, Condelli, Ganson, Barrett, McConkey, & Plantz	The impact of Head Start on children, families, and their communities. Final Report of the Head Start Education, synthesis and utilization project. Executive summary	1985	Head start programs	72	NA	17	0.31
Report	Murphy	Educational effectiveness of Sesame Street: A review of the first twenty years of research	1991	Sesame Street	150	NA	104	0.46
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis	Shager, Schindler, Magnuson, Duncan, Yoshikawa & Hart	Can research design explain variation in Head Start research results? A meta-analysis	2012	Head start programs	28	NA	313	0.27
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology	Mares & Pan	Effects of Sesame Street: A meta-analysis of children's learning in 15 countries	2013	Sesame Street	24	10,596	134	0.26
TOTAL/AVERAGE						412	10,596	1,288	0.33