Preface / Edward Zigler and Jeanette Valentine -- Introduction / Robert E. Cooke -- An idea whose time had come : the intellectual and political climate / Edward Zigler and Karen Anderson -- Early skirmishes with poverty : the historical roots of Head Start / Catherine J. Ross -- Head start, a retrospective view : the founders : Leadership within the Johnson administration / Joseph A. Califano ... [et al.] -- The early planners / George B. Brain ... [et al.] -- The early administrators / Jule M. Sugarman, Julius B. Richmond, Richard E. Orton -- A decade of Head Start / Julius B. Richmond, Deborah J. Stipek, and Edward Zigler -- Introduction / Barbara Biber -- General philosophy : preschool education within Head Start / Jeannette Galambos Stone -- Implementation of a Head Start preschool education program : Los Angeles, 1965-1967 / June Solnit Sale -- Development of curriculum models in Head Start / Louise B. Miller --

Assessment of the Head Start preschool education effort / Eveline B. Omwake -- Health services in Head Start / A. Frederick North -- Mental health services in Head Start / Donald J. Cohen, Albert J. Solnit, and Paul Wohlford -- Social services in Head Start / Irving Lazar -- The social context of parent involvement in Head Start / Jeanette Valentine and Evan Stark -- Career development in Head Start / Penelope K. Trickett -- Remote battlegrounds : the office of special field projects / Gloria Small -- Program development in Head Start : a multifaceted approach to meeting the needs of families and children / Jeanette Valentine -- Head Start : not a program but an evolving concept / Edward Zigler -- Administrative aspects of the Head Start program / Carolyn Harmon and Edward J. Hanley -- Evaluation during the early years of Head Start / Edmund W. Gordon --

Another spring and other hopes : some findings from national evaluations of project Head Start / Lois-ellin Datta -- Long-term gains from early intervention : findings from longitudinal studies / Francis H. Palmer and Lucille Woolis Andersen -- Another perspective on program evaluation : the parents speak / James L. Robinson and Willa Barrie Choper -- Project Head Start : a critique of theory and practice / Deborah J. Stipek, Jeanette Valentine, and Edward Zigler -- Project Head Start : success or failure? / Edward Zigler -- Epilogue / Jeanette Valentine, Catherine J. Ross, and Edward Zigler.