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Download full textSchweinhart, Lawrence J. – 2001
Noting that growing evidence indicates that high-quality preschool child development programs contribute to the short and long-term development of children living in poverty, this digest summarizes recently reported experimental and quasi-experimental studies of Head Start and similar programs. Recently reported experimental studies include those…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Family Literacy, Outcomes of Education, Poverty
Schweinhart, Lawrence J. – 2002
Noting that growing evidence indicates that high-quality preschool child development programs contribute to the short- and long-term development of children living in poverty, this Digest summarizes recently reported experimental and quasi-experimental studies of Head Start and similar programs. Recently reported experimental studies include those…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Family Literacy, Outcomes of Education, Poverty
Peer reviewedSchweinhart, Lawrence J. – Evaluation and Research in Education, 2000
Studied the long-term benefits of preschool programs for young children living in poverty in the High/Scope Perry Preschool Study, which examined the lives of 123 African Americans randomly divided into a preschool treatment group and a no-preschool comparison group. Cost-benefit analyses of data on these students to age 27 show beneficial effects…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blacks, Case Studies, Cost Effectiveness
Schweinhart, Lawrence J. – 2003
The High/Scope Perry Preschool Study is a study of the effects of a high-quality preschool program for children born in poverty. Following 123 children randomly assigned to program or no-program control groups, the study has had little attrition on a variety of measures from age 3 to age 41. The study has found evidence of preschool program…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Cost Effectiveness, Early Intervention
Peer reviewedSchweinhart, Lawrence J.; Weikart, David P. – Educational Leadership, 1998
Assesses effectiveness of three preschool curriculum models by examining the lives of 68 23-year-olds randomly assigned to one such group as economically disadvantaged preschoolers. Young people experienced fewer emotional problems and felony arrests if they had attended a preschool program based on child-initiated learning activities geared to…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Economically Disadvantaged, Emotional Problems
Schweinhart, Lawrence J. – 1985
This paper describes the problem and consequences of preschool poverty and outlines the potential contributions of high quality preschool child development programs towards lessening the magnitude of the problem. Data indicate that among children under 6 years of age one in four is now living in poverty, and in 17 states more than one fourth of…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Competence, Cost Effectiveness, Day Care
