Head Start: The Inside Story Of America's Most Successful Education Experiment
- ISBN-10
- 0465033164
- ISBN-13
- 9780465033164
- Series
- Head Start
- Category
- Education / General
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992-11-24
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Authors
- Edward F. Zigler, Susan Muenchow, Professor Edward F Zigler
Description
Zigler, who has been a consultant to every administration since he helped found Head Start in the sixties, tells the behind-the-scenes story of the program's rocky course, from its beginnings as “Project Rush-Rush” to today.
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- 1994-04-20
- 288 pages
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- 2018-09-06
- 194 pages
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- 2018-09-06
- 192 pages
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