The Head Start Advantage Congressional Briefing

To bring psychological research to bear in the Head Start reauthorization process, PPO cosponsored a congressional briefing on June 6, 2003, "The Head Start Advantage," with the Society for Research in Child Development and the National Association for the Education of Young Children. The panel included Larry Aber, Ph.D. (Columbia University), Alshadye Yemane (Head Start graduate, now with The Urban Institute), Cybele Raver, Ph.D. (University of Chicago), Diane Slaughter-Defoe, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), and Hiro Yoshikawa, Ph.D. (New York University). The presenters provided a strong research basis for retaining federal control of the program with its multiple components and performance standards.