An Early Lead
New England Journal of Higher Education, The, Spring 2006
How much advantage do intensive preschool programs bestow on at-risk children? A study of 40-year-old African-Americans who passed through the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program in Ypsilanti, Mich., in the 1960s, shows a major benefit. The study authored by economist Clive R. Belfield of Queens College, City University of New York, Milagros Nores of Columbia University Teachers College, Steve Barnett of the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University and Lawrence Schweinhart of the High/Scope Foundation appears in the Winter 2006 Journal of Human Resources, published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
The study shows the following differences between preschooled and non-preschooled 40-year-olds:
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