ED366433 PS021998
Title: Significant Benefits: The High/Scope Perry Preschool Study
through Age 27. Monographs of the High/Scope Educational Research
Foundation, No. Ten.
Author(s): Schweinhart, Lawrence J.; And Others
Author Affiliation: High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, Ypsilanti,
MI.(BBB04423)
Pages: 293
Publication Date: 1993
ISBN: 0-929816-57-9
Available from: EDRS Price MF01 Plus Postage. PC Not Available from
EDRS.
Availability: High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, 600 North
River Street, Ypsilanti, MI 48198-2898 ($25).
Language: English
Document Type: Reports--Evaluative (142)
Geographic Source: U.S.; Michigan
Journal Announcement: RIEJUN1994
This book
reports on the High/Scope Perry Preschool Project, a longitudinal
study assessing whether high-quality, active learning preschool
programs can provide both short- and long-term benefits to children
living in poverty and at high risk of failing in school. For almost
3 decades the study has followed the lives of 123 such children
from African-American families who lived in the neighborhood of
Perry Elementary School in Ypsilanti, Michigan, in the 1960s. Focusing
on the age-27 phase of the study, the report is divided into 10
chapters which discuss: (1) preschool program effects; (2) the experiment
design; (3) educational performance; (4) delinquency and crime;
(5) economic status; (6) family formation, health, and social relations;
(7) cost-benefit analysis; (8) a causal model; (9) individual case
studies; and (10) the overall study in perspective. Study findings
at age 27 as reported in these chapters indicate that the preschool
participants have significantly higher earnings, rates of home ownership,
and levels of schooling, as well as significantly fewer arrests
and social service interventions, than a control group of non-preschool
participants. Cost-benefit analysis revealed that, over the lifetimes
of the participants, the preschool program returned to the public
an estimated $7.16 for every dollar spent. Includes 194 references.
A separately published 13-page "summary", based on the
content of chapter 10, has been appended. (MDM)
Descriptors: *At Risk Persons; Blacks; Case Studies; *Cost Effectiveness;
*Early Intervention; Longitudinal Studies; *Poverty Programs; *Preschool
Education; Program Effectiveness; School Readiness; Socioeconomic
Status
Identifiers: *High Scope Demonstration Preschool Project; Long Term
Effects
