School Quality and the Longer-Term Effects of Head Start

摘要: Research on Head Start suggests that effects test scores "fade out" more quickly for black children than white children. We use data from the 1988 wave of National Educational Longitudinal Survey to show go attend schools worse quality other do not see any similar pattern among whites. Moreover, when we stratify by an indicator school quality, gaps in between and are very blacks Hence, may fade out rapidly students, at least part because likely subsequently inferior schools.