Goals
Follow Through, like Head Start, was enormous in scope, and designed to remedy the fact that "poor children tend to do poorly in school" (Stebbins et al., 1977, p. xxxiii). Despite the cut in funding, it nevertheless served a substantial number of students. At its height, the program would grow to encompass 20 different sponsored interventions and approximately 352,000 Follow Through and comparison children in 178 projects nationwide (Egbert, 1981, p. 7; Stebbins et al., 1977, pp. xix, 19). If one considers that funding for the last Follow Through sites ended in 1995, the project was indeed comprehensive in both depth and breadth.
In addition to identifying the most effective instructional practices and disseminating them to schools and districts, it was also hoped that Follow Through would help reduce the number of potentially conflicting federal intervention programs in schools, which was thought by some to be counterproductive and expensive (Hill, 1981, pp. -12, 20). Moreover, if models could be identified that were effective with needy children, these interventions could be staged in regular education classrooms as well (Hill, 1981, p. 20).
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