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Head Start Research:
Early Head Start Research:
- Early Head Start children on average had a higher cognitive development score than their control group had. 1
- Early Head Start children demonstrated a higher level of social-emotional development than their control group in a number of areas. Compared with their control group, they showed less aggressive behavior and were more attuned to objects as they played. 2
- When their children were 3 years old, Early Head Start parents reported significantly less depression than parents in the control group did. 3
- Early Head Start children had a higher immunization rate than children in a control group had. 4
- Early Head Start children at age 3 had larger vocabularies than the control children had. 5
- Early Head Start parents were more supportive of their children in their efforts to develop their language and learning skills than the control group parents were. 6
- Early Head Start parents were more likely to report that they read to their child every day than the control group parents were. 7
- Early Head Start parents appeared to be more emotionally supportive with their children than control group parents were with their children. 8
- Early Head Start parents were more likely to read to their children on a daily basis than the control group parents were. 9
- Early Head Start parents were more likely to participate in an educational or job training program than the control group parents were. 10
- Early Head Start parents were more likely to be employed at some point during the evaluation period than the control group parents were. 11
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