From: Bill Lucy 

In article , si{at}wvi.com says...
> About HeadStart.... do the gains evaporate and the kids become substandard
> performers, or do they evaporate in the mass of kids doing the same level
> work?
>
> If they were expected to do poorly, but instead managed to keep up with the
> standard, it sounds like the program did it's job.

The problem with the HeadStart studies is they don't take into account one
factor -- the socialization issue. Just as in other groups, kids in school
tend toward a mean. With school, much of that comes from the class size and
the ability of the teacher to coalesce the group -- otherwise no learning
can be done.

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