PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - House, Ernest
AU  - Glass, Gene
AU  - McLean, Leslie
AU  - Walker, Decker
TI  - No Simple Answer: Critique of the Follow Through Evaluation
AID  - 10.17763/haer.48.2.j2167r4594027x87
DP  - 1978 Jul 01
TA  - Harvard Educational Review
PG  - 128--160
VI  - 48
IP  - 2
4099  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/48/2/128.short
4100  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/48/2/128.full
SO  - herp1978 Jul 01; 48
AB  - Follow Through has been the largest and most expensive federal educational experiment in this country's history. Conceived in 1967 as an extension of Head Start, Follow Through was designed as a service program to improve the schooling of disadvantaged children in the early elementary grades. Before it was under way,however, an expected $120 million appropriation was slashed to only $15 milion for the first year. A decision was then made by the U.S. Office of Education to convert the program into a planned variation experiment, which systematically would compare pupils enrolled in different models of early childhood education—the Follow Through models—to each other and to pupils from non-Follow Through classes.