Overall Classroom Quality
| Trained observers rated the overall Head Start classroom quality as good. Across the sample of 498 Head Start classrooms, the average ECERS score was 5.1 on a 7-point scale. No classroom had an average score lower than minimal. |
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Quality of Head Start Compared to Other Preschool Programs
| Compared with results from six national research studies, Head Start classrooms have higher quality than most center-based early childhood programs. The vertical bars below show that the quality of classrooms in FACES clustered around the good level while the quality in other studies was lower and sometimes fell below the minimal level. |
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