T he purpose of this paper is to describe the evaluation of the Follow Through Program. Follow Through was contained in the 1967 Amendments to the Economic Opportunity Act. The Program was to provide comprehensive services to school-aged, low income children and therefore follow through with the advantages given to children by Head Start. While a massive program was envisaged, plans were interrupted by the cutback in appropriations given to the Office of Economic Opportunity in 1967. Instead of $120 million to initiate the Program, only $15 million were available. Therefore, the decision was made to use Follow Through as a vehicle for developing and providing field tests for a number of alternative approaches to education in the elementary school. This field test was to be extensively evaluated.
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Garry L. McDaniels (1975) studied this question.