RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 No Simple Answer: Critique of the Follow Through Evaluation
JF Harvard Educational Review
JO herp
FD Harvard Educational Press
SP 128
OP 160
DO 10.17763/haer.48.2.j2167r4594027x87
VO 48
IS 2
A1 House, Ernest
A1 Glass, Gene
A1 McLean, Leslie
A1 Walker, Decker
YR 1978
UL http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/48/2/128.abstract
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.