This brief provides tips for forming a team of staff and consultants with the needed expertise to make key measurement decisions that will ensure high-quality data for answering the study’s research questions.

Dosage, or the amount of intervention delivered, is an important factor in understanding implementation. This brief for researchers and practitioners aims to help establish a common language for communication of findings.

This publication, the first major report on the Early Head Start national evaluation, focuses on early implementation experiences and tells the story of the 17 programs that helped launch the first nationwide program for low-income infants and toddlers.

Finds that, a year or more after enrolling in the program, 2-year-olds perform significantly better on a range of measures of cognitive, language, and social-emotional development, when compared with a randomly assigned control group. EHS families are also more likely to attend school or job...

Dosage, or the amount of intervention delivered, is an important factor in understanding implementation. This brief for researchers and practitioners aims to help establish a common language for communication of findings.

This publication, the first major report on the Early Head Start national evaluation, focuses on early implementation experiences and tells the story of the 17 programs that helped launch the first nationwide program for low-income infants and toddlers.

This preliminary summary of program impacts shows that programs successfully delivered their intended services and that participating children performed significantly better in cognitive, language, and social-emotional development than nonparticipating children. Participating parents also showed...

Summarizes initial findings from an ongoing five-year evaluation of Ready To Learn, a public broadcasting initiative to help enhance children's readiness for school. Notes that Ready To Learn's outreach to the community is diverse and conducted by experienced professionals. Also suggests that...