Ebbie...I very carefully do not claim there were 'no discernable benefits',I too, have seen how Head Start can be a real help....I only wonder at the ultimate bureaucratic guide..."cost/benefit analysis".

If it costs $100,000 per year for each child officially deemed 'helped', it will never last. I wish there were an easy way to tell what was on;y a band-aid, and what got at the underlying infection.