Friday, October 23, 2009

Investing in Early Childhood makes good economic sense

Parks, G. (2000). The High/Scope Perry Preschool Project. Juvenile justice bulletin. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
**Available at UNO's Criss Library!

Perry Preschool project:
  • Lasting effects of  a quality preschool experience
  • Randomly selected group
  • Participants in middle age achieved in ways that were found to be significantly greater than those without such experiences.