Robert St. Pierre

Eighteen Even Start projects and 463 families participated in the EDS -- 309 families were randomly assigned to participate in Even Start and 154 were assigned to a control group that could avail themselves of any educational services to which they were entitled, but they could not participate in Even Start. Pretest data on child and adult literacy skills were collected in the fall, posttest data were collected in the spring/summer, and follow-up data were collected in the following spring.