Early Childhood Programming

Posted by on July 9, 2004

Harvard Family Research Project has published on our website the Spring 2004 issue of our “The Evaluation Exchange” periodical. The new issue charts the course of early childhood programming and evaluation over nearly half a century. Contributing authors offer a range of views on how best to communicate the importance of investing in a child’s early years and how to improve early childhood programs and policies. Several articles consider the explosion of science–from longitudinal studies of child outcomes to a large-scale demonstration program–that has helped forward our understanding of how young children learn and grow. Finally, a number of articles suggest that better information is needed to close the persistent gap in achievement between children from low-income families and those from middle-income homes.

http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/eval/issue26