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2 Studying Head Start's Families: General Themes
Pages 12-19

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... Rather, it reflects ACYF's specific charge to the rouncitable to focus on research that takes as its primary concern Heac! Start families ant} famity-leve!
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... Start research. There are still many issues about the content of the program and effects on children's learning ancI clevelopment that neec]
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From page 14...
... The roundtable members, throughout their deliberations, sought to establish a useful framework within which a progression of studies on Head Start chilcTren and families could be developed. They considered approaches to reconceptualizing traditional notions of parental involvement and family support in order to capture more dynamic views of the family-Head Start interface.
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... Poor families tend to organize themselves into multigenerational units and many bridge traditional and nontraditional norms within their own culture in rearing their children. We need to understand how such multigenerational families interact with and are influenced by Head Start centers.
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From page 16...
... family life. · Documentation of the process of selection into Head Start is critical for tailoring programs to the needs of the communities they serve, for outreach to underserved families, and for interpreting program effects.
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... All Head Start families are very disadvantaged economically, even within the poverty population. · Efforts to describe how Head Start relates to and involves family members, and to identify successful strategies for involving them, need to capture families' natural progressions into, through, and beyond Head Start.
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... The evaluation will provide ciata regarding the effectiveness of the Transition Project models in maintaining the gains that children and families achieve while in Head Start, as well as provicI ~ ing information about chilcI, family, school, and service characteristics that may affect this transition process. Heather Weiss and Lynn Kagan argued that most discussions of family effects deal indiscriminantly with "outside" effectsparental employment, family participation in community activities or "inside" effects the kinds of person-to~person interchanges that take place within families.
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... achieving those goals a process that Project Match refers to as the lacicler approach (see Box 3~. The fact that most evaluations of government programs cover rela ~ - __,_ :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::: :::::: ::::::::: :::: :::::::::::::::::::::::: .
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