Pre-school in Texas  Get them while they’re young  An experiment
with national consequences  See article  Readers' comments
Paul Marks in reply to supamark  The "positive effect" fades by
the time the child has left school - that is the point I was
making.  Not that a young child does not show any improvement
from "Head Start" - but that by the time the child has left
school (is not a child anymore) there is no difference between
those who had "Head Start" and those that did not.  Rob S in
reply to WXSWIAF  I read the executive summary of the book, WXS,
and found that the focus was on the characterization of the
problem. There were suggestions made as how to ameliorate the
problems, but I saw no evidence presented that the approaches
proposed here would be any more successful than HeadStart was.
The authors did suggest that charter schools had a positive
impact, but that approach is clearly unacceptable: 1. It does
not create a pre-school bureaucracy. 2. It weakens the power of
the public school establish