| About the Editors | p. ix |
| Contributors | p. xi |
| Foreword | p. xv |
| Preface | p. xix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxiii |
| The Goals of Head Start | p. 1 |
| IQ versus Social Competence | |
| Early Educational Interventions and Intelligence: Implications for Head Start | p. 3 |
| Familiar Concept, New Name: Social Competence/School Readiness as the Goal of Head Start | p. 19 |
| Long- versus Short-Term Effects | |
| When Psychology Informs Public Policy: The Case of Early Childhood Intervention | p. 27 |
| Head Start--Revisiting a Historical Psychoeducational Intervention: A Revisionist Perspective | p. 45 |
| Poverty Warriors versus Child Developmentalists | |
| Three Core Concepts of the War on Poverty: Their Origins and Significance in Head Start | p. 61 |
| Was Head Start a Community Action Program? Another Look at an Old Debate | p. 85 |
| An Early Administrator's Perspective on Head Start | p. 103 |
| Does Head Start Work? | p. 111 |
| Impact on School Readiness and Success | |
| The Head Start Classroom as an Oral Language Environment: What Should the Performance Standards Be? | p. 113 |
| A Community-Based Approach to School Readiness in Head Start | p. 129 |
| Head Start and Evidence-Based Educational Models | p. 143 |
| Impact on Health | |
| Head Start's Efforts to Improve Child Health | p. 161 |
| The Challenge of Mental Health in Head Start: Making the Vision Real | p. 179 |
| Impact on Families | |
| A Persistent Pattern of Progress: Parent Outcomes in Longitudinal Studies of Head Start Children and Families | p. 193 |
| A Parent's Views on Head Start | p. 215 |
| A Former Head Start Student's Views | p. 219 |
| Research Must Be Better | |
| Does Head Start Have Lasting Cognitive Effects? The Myth of Fade-Out | p. 221 |
| How Well Does Head Start Prepare Children to Learn to Read? | p. 251 |
| New Possibilities for Research on Head Start | p. 263 |
| The Future of Head Start | p. 279 |
| Quality | |
| Head Start in the 1990s: Striving for Quality Through a Decade of Improvement | p. 283 |
| Quality in Head Start: A Dream within Reach | p. 297 |
| Head Start: A Decade of Challenge and Change | p. 309 |
| Professional Social Work Involvement in Head Start | p. 329 |
| Child Care | |
| Head Start and Child Care: Programs Adapt to Meet the Needs of Working Families | p. 339 |
| Are There Better Ways to Spend Federal Child Care Funds to Improve Child Outcomes? | p. 351 |
| Universal Access | |
| The "Failure" of Head Start | p. 359 |
| A Head Start for All Children | p. 363 |
| Timing of Intervention | |
| Dosage-Response Effects and Mechanisms of Change in Public and Model Programs | p. 379 |
| The Transition to School: Building on Preschool Foundations and Preparing for Lifelong Learning | p. 397 |
| Early Head Start, Child Care, Family Support, and Family Policy | p. 415 |
| Early Brain Development | |
| The Brain and Child Development: Time for Some Critical Thinking | p. 423 |
| Critical Periods in Central Nervous System Development | p. 435 |
| The Environmental Mystique: Training the Intellect versus Development of the Child | p. 449 |
| Administration | |
| Coordinating Head Start with the States | p. 459 |
| Maintaining Federal to Local Management of Head Start | p. 467 |
| What Can Be Learned from State-Funded Prekindergarten Initiatives? A Data-Based Approach to the Head Start Devolution Debate | p. 477 |
| Caveat Emptor: The Head Start Scam | p. 499 |
| The Wisdom of a Federal Effort on Behalf of Impoverished Children and Their Families | p. 511 |
| Models for the Future | |
| Head Start as a National Laboratory | p. 517 |
| The Future of Head Start | p. 533 |
| Index | p. 545 |
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