<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Buttle&#039;s World]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://buttle.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[clgood]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://buttle.wordpress.com/author/buttle/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[That Big Head Start Study You&#8217;ve Been Reading&nbsp;About]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>America has spent $100 billion and change on Head Start, and now there&#8217;s a major study on just how effective it has been. Kathleen Sebelius says,</p>
<blockquote><p>“Research clearly shows that Head Start positively impacts the school readiness of low-income children.”</p></blockquote>
<p>So that&#8217;s why you&#8217;ve been reading all about it in the press.</p>
<p>What? You say you haven&#8217;t?</p>
<p>Hmm. I wonder <a href="http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2010/01/14/how-the-media-are-covering-head-starts-failure/" target="_blank">why not.</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Umm, yes Ms. Secretary, but the same research shows <em>those effects vanish by the end of first grade</em>. I guess that information is on a <em>need-to-not-know</em> basis. The public needs to not know about it or the administration hasn’t got a snowball’s chance in Kauai of getting American tax payers to throw another $100 billion or so at government pre-K, as President Obama is so very keen to do.</p></blockquote>
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