title: Effectiveness of early educational intervention.
abstract: Early educational intervention has been proposed to partially offset the impacts of poverty and inadequate learning environments on child development and school success. A broad range of early educational interventions are found to produce meaningful, lasting effects on cognitive, social, and schooling outcomes. However, all interventions are not equally effective. Two major U.S. programs perform relatively poorly. Research provides some guidance regarding the features of highly effective programs, but much remains to be learned. New experimental studies of key program features would have a high payoff.
authors.affiliation: National Institute for Early Education Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA. sbarnett@nieer.org
authors.forename: W S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Barnett
mesh_terms: D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003071:Cognition; D018479:Early Intervention, Educational; D004521:Educational Measurement; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007360:Intelligence; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D015397:Program Evaluation; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D012919:Social Behavior; D014481:United States