ERIC Number: EJ1449673
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Nov
Pages: 17
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
EISSN: EISSN-1467-8624
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Does Adding Parent Education and Workforce Training to Head Start Promote or Interfere with Children's Development?
Terri J. Sabol; Elise Chor; Teresa Eckrich Sommer; Lauren A. Tighe; P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale; Amanda Sheffield Morris; Jeanne Brooks-Gunn; Hirokazu Yoshikawa; Christopher King
Child Development, v95 n6 p2102-2118 2024
This study explores the effects of the two-generation program Career"Advance"--which combines education and training for parents in healthcare with Head Start for children--on children's academic, language, mathematics, and inhibitory control followed for 3 years. The sample (collected in Tulsa, Oklahoma from 2011 to 2018) includes 147 children in the Career"Advance" group and 139 children in a matched comparison group (n = 286; 40% Black, 17%, White, 10% Hispanic, 33% Mixed Race, or Other Race; M = 3.6 years old; 47% female). Overall, the effect of Career"Advance" on child outcomes is neither greater nor less than Head Start alone. These findings suggest that children's developmental outcomes do not worsen or improve in the short term when their parents return to school.
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Social Services, Early Childhood Education, Parent Education, Health Services, Academic Achievement, Language Skills, Mathematics Skills, Self Control, Child Development, Causal Models
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Adult Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: Administration for Children and Families (DHHS), Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE)
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Identifiers - Location: Oklahoma (Tulsa)
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Head Start
Grant or Contract Numbers: 90FX001; 90PH0020
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