Head Start Research

Head Start Impact Study and Follow-up, 2000–2012

• Overview
• Third Grade Follow-up

Head Start Impact Study Final Report

• Head Start Impact Study: Final Report, Executive Summary, January 2010
  [Color PDF, 284 KB]

• Head Start Impact Study: Final Report, January 2010
  [Color PDF, 2.85 MB]

• Head Start Impact Study: Technical Report, January 2010
  [Color PDF, 1.50 MB]

Detailed Analyses Tables

• Head Start Impact Study: Main Impact Tables, 2003
  [B&W PDF 92 KB]

• Head Start Impact Study: Subgroup Impact Tables, 2003
  [B&W PDF, 1.30 MB]

• Head Start Impact Study: Main Impact Tables, 2004
  [B&W PDF, 108 KB]

• Head Start Impact Study: Subgroup Impact Tables, 2004
  [B&W PDF 1.98 MB]

• Head Start Impact Study: Main Impact Tables, 2005
  [B&W PDF, 124 KB]

• Head Start Impact Study: Subgroup Impact Tables, 2005
  [B&W PDF, 2.37 MB]

• Head Start Impact Study: Main Impact Tables, 2006
  [B&W PDF, 64 KB]

• Head Start Impact Study: Subgroup Impact Tables, 2006
  [B&W PDF, 1.30 MB]

Head Start Impact Study: First Year Findings

• Head Start Impact Study: First Year Findings, Executive Summary, June 2005
  [HTML | Color PDF, 493 KB]

• Head Start Impact Study: First Year Findings, June 2005
  [HTML | Color PDF, 7.08 MB]

• Building Futures: Head Start Impact Study Frequently Asked Questions, January 2001
  [HTML | B&W PDF, 158 KB]

Research Design Documents

• Building Futures: The Head Start Impact Study Research Design Plan Updated, March 2001
  [HTML | B&W PDF, 1.02 MB]

Reports to Congress

• Building Futures: The Head Start Impact Study Interim Report, September 2003
  [HTML | B&W PDF, 677 KB]

• National Head Start Impact Research, Second Report to Congress, June 2002
  [HTML | B&W PDF, 94 KB]

• Presentation on the Head Start Impact Study at Head Start's National Research Conference, June 2002
  [HTML | Color PDF, 195 KB]

• Presentation on the Head Start Impact Study at the National Head Start Association's 28th Annual Training Conference in Orlando, Florida, May 2001
  [HTML | Color PDF, 658 KB]

• OPRE website: Advisory Committee on Head Start Research and Evaluation
  http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/hs/advisory_com/index.html

• Background
  http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/hs/impact_study/imptstudy_background.html
  

• Press Releases
  http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2010pres/01/20100113a.html

• ACF Website: Office of Head Start
  http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ohs/

• OPRE website: Head Start's National Research Conference
  http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/hsrc/

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