A Year in Head Start: Children, Families and Programs.

Using data from FACES 2006, this report profiles the 3- and 4-year-old Head Start children and families newly enrolled in fall 2006 and still attending in spring 2007. Although they enter Head Start below national norms on most measures of language, literacy, and math skills, these children make significant progress toward norms during the year in the areas of receptive vocabulary in English, letter-word knowledge, and early math. By spring, they score at national norms in letter-word knowledge.