Research Shows Lasting Gains of Preschool Programs
Education Week said, “The High/Scope Perry Preschool Project is perhaps the best-known study of the long-term effects of a high-quality pre-kindergarten education.
“The High/Scope Educational Research Foundation tracked, from age 3 or 4 through age 27, a group of 123 African-Americans who were living in poverty at the start of the study. The study provided a comprehensive evaluation of the lasting impact of pre-kindergarten on the lives of those students.”
The study also showed that:
More than a third of the children who went to the Perry preschool owned their own homes by age 27, compared with 7 % of the control group.
At least $2,000 a month was made by four times as many Perry students compared with the control group.
Two-thirds of the Perry students graduated from high school on time, compared with less than half of the control group.
Only 15 % of the Perry kids needed any type of special education, compared with more than a third of the control group.
The Perry kids were also less likely to apply for welfare or be arrested, and the women were five times as likely to be married and less likely to have children before marriage.
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