Head Start programs have the goal of preparing America's most vulnerable young children to succeed in school and in life beyond school. Pine Bluff offers three head start programs that graduated 56 early learners who are now transitioning to kindergarten.
Conventional wisdom would suggest that students from poor households aren't as adept at learning as their better-off peers. But the performance of a school in Pine Bluff provides a lesson in not becoming trapped in a way of thinking that might not be all that wise.