The High/Scope Perry Preschool Study (1997)

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The High/Scope Perry Preschool Study(1997)
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The project was started in 1960. It was a longitudinal study to measure the effects of preschool education for low-income children where the children were tracked from the age of preschool years to the age of 27. There were two groups. One group had kids at the age of 3 attending the preschool while the other group kids did not attend the pre school. The results showed great differences between the two groups. The kids who attended the preschool were comparatively in a better position. The kids attending pre school spent fewer than half as many years in special education programs, had higher earnings, were five times less likely to be arrested. Gender differences were
Schweinhart Jeanne Montie Zongping Xiang W. Steven Barnett Clive R. Belfield Milagros Nores and it draws the conclusions about a 2-year preschool education program for 3- and 4-year-olds living in low-income families. The design and findings of the High/Scope Perry Preschool study and its conclusions are summarized here has the study over 4 decades from preschool Study years through Age 40. The High/Scope Perry Preschool study has identified both the short- and long-term effects of a high quality preschool education program for young children living in poverty. From 1962 through 1967, David Weikart and his colleagues in the Ypsilanti, Michigan, school district operated the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program for young children to help them avoid school failure and related problems. 123 low-income African-American children were identified as a sample who were assessed to be at high risk of school failure and randomly assigned 58 of them to a program group that received a high-quality preschool program at ages 3 and 4 and 65 to another group that received no preschool program. Data was collected annually on both groups from ages 3 through 11 and again at ages 14, 15, 19, 27, and 40, with a missing data rate of only 6% across all measures. The findings of program effects through age 40 span the domains of education, economic performance, crime prevention, family relationships, and health. The group that attended pre school outperformed
About 75 percent of the children participated for two school years (at ages 3 and 4); the remainder participated for one year (at age 4). The preschool was provided each weekday morning in 2.5-hour sessions taught by certified public school teachers with at least a bachelor’s degree. The average child-teacher ratio was 6:1. The curriculum emphasized active learning, in which the children engaged in activities that (i) involved decision making and problem solving, and (ii) were planned, carried out, and reviewed by the children themselves, with support from adults. The teachers also provided a weekly 1.5-hour home visit to each mother and child, designed to involve the mother in the educational process and help implement the preschool curriculum at home. The program’s cost was approximately $11,300 per child per school year (in 2007 dollars). The program had 128 children of which 64 were in intervention group and 64 were in control group. and the study was performed on various sectors on each individual like Educational outcomes for preschool group, Pregnancy outcomes for preschool group, Lifetime criminal activity for preschool group, Economic outcomes for preschool group and study quality discussion from the age of 27 and some after 40. Like all