The Why Axis: Hidden Motives And The Undiscovered Economics Of Everyday Life - Plot & Excerpts
A Voyage to Preschool One of the longest-running programs to address systemic poverty in the United States is Head Start, serving millions of young children since it was founded in 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s “war on poverty.” Although the original intention of Head Start may have been laudable, the program has proven far less effective in helping disadvantaged four-year-olds get a jump on cognitive and social skills than originally hoped. Several academics have by now dissected the program and have found that it has several deficiencies, chiefly because the teachers are largely undereducated, underpaid mothers, fewer than 30 percent of whom hold bachelor’s degrees.1 Another problem is related to the fact that instead of being run by the Department of Education, Head Start is run by the Department of Housing and Human Services—an agency more involved in making up for the effects of inadequate education than in improving it. We suspect that presented with the totality of the evidence, reasonable people would question whether Head Start provides kids with significant benefits.
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