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Program for Parents Helps Sustain Learning Gains in Kids from Head Start to Kindergarten

NIH-funded study shows involving parents sets the stage for later academic success

Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2015. An instructional program for parents helps young children retain the literacy skills and positive learning behaviors acquired in Head Start and retain them through to the end of the kindergarten year, according to researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health.

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The program appears to offset what education researchers call “summer loss,” or the tendency of children to forget…

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