Links and Resources
The Perry Preschool Study
- The Perry Preschool Study began in 1962 as a program of the public schools in Ypsilanti, Michigan. In 1970, the Perry researchers created an independent non-profit organization to continue the research. They named it the HighScope Educational Research Foundation: http://www.highscope.org/
- Since 1970, HighScope has published six books on the results of the Perry Preschool Study. The first book was about the effects of the program at the end of preschool. The subsequent books were on results through ages 10, 15, 19, 27 and 40. This is a link to the comprehensive results at Age 40: http://www.highscope.org/Content.asp?ContentId=219
"The Big Three" studies of the long-term effects of preschool
- The Perry Preschool Study: http://www.highscope.org/Content.asp?ContentId=219
- The Carolina Abecedarian Project: http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~abc/
- The Chicago Longitudinal Study (The Chicago Child-Parent Centers): http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/cls/
Other Preschool Links and Resources
- The National Institute for Early Education Research: http://nieer.org/
- Pre-K Now: http://www.preknow.org/
- The Partnership for America's Economic Success: http://www.partnershipforsuccess.org/index.php?id=01
- The First Five Years Fund: http://www.ffyf.org/
- The Pritzker Consortium on Early Childhood Development http://harrisschool.uchicago.edu/Research/pritzkerconsortium/
- Minnesota Early Learning Foundation http://www.melf.us/
Economist Art Rolnick's paper
- Early Childhood Development: Economic Development with a High Public Return http://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications_papers/pub_display.cfm?id=3832
James Heckman papers
- America's Growing Skills Problem http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:FavoKhIJhawJ:www.faimh.org/resourceFiles/EcoEarlyChildhdHeckman.doc+america%27s+growing+skills+problem&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
- Schools, Skills, and Synapses http://ftp.iza.org/dp3515.pdf
- Investing in Disadvantaged Young Children is an Economically Efficient Policy http://www.ced.org/images/library/reports/education/early_education/report_2006prek_heckman.pdf
- The Economics, Technology and Neuroscience of Human Capability Formation http://ftp.iza.org/dp2875.pdf
- The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits http://ftp.iza.org/dp3333.pdf
Other reading:
- The Role of Non-Cognitive Skills in Explaining Cognitive Test Scores http://www.aeaweb.org/annual_mtg_papers/2007/0105_1015_0202.pdf
- Self-Discipline Outdoes IQ in Predicting Academic Performance of Adolescents http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~duckwort/images/PsychologicalScienceDec2005.pdf
- Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~duckwort/images/Grit%20JPSP.pdf
- Forget Teacher Education Level, Pre-K Students Benefit Most When Teachers Are Supportive http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080515073026.htm
- Dollars and Sense: A Review of Economic Analyses of Pre-K http://www.preknow.org/documents/DollarsandSense_May2007.pdf
- Economic Analysis of Pre-Kindergarten: An Overview of the Evidence http://www.ced.org/images/library/reports/education/early_education/report_2005prek_belfield.pdf
- Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Early Education Interventions on Cognitive and Social Development http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=15440
- The Effects of Universal Pre-K on Cognitive Development http://www.apa.org/journals/releases/dev416872.pdf
- Early Childhood Interventions: Proven Results, Future Promise http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG341/
- A New Framework for Assessing the Benefits of Early Education http://www.ced.org/images/library/reports/education/early_education/report_preschool_2004_assessingbenefits.pdf
- Investing in Early Education: Paths to Improving Children's Success http://www.brookings.edu/testimony/2008/0123_education_haskins.aspx
- High-Quality Preschool: Why We Need It and What it Looks Like http://nieer.org/resources/policybriefs/1.pdf
- Early Childhood Development and Social Mobility http://nieer.org/docs/?DocID=152
- Promoting Children's Social and Emotional Development Through Preschool Education http://nieer.org/resources/policyreports/report7.pdf
- Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Programs on Cognitive and School Outcomes http://www.futureofchildren.org/usr_doc/vol5no3ART2.pdf
- Connecting Neurons, Concepts, and People: Brain Development and its Implications http://nieer.org/docs/?DocID=249
- Open the Preschool Door, Close the Preparation Gap http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=110&subsecID=180&contentID=252867
- Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/hs/faces/
Book List
If you would like to learn more about research on preschool and early childhood development, there are a lot of books to read.
This is a great book list from the National Institute for Early Education Research: http://nieer.org/docs/index.php?DocID=45
And these are some of the books I read and referred to while making this documentary:
- As the Twig is Bent: Lasting Effects of Preschool Programs, Consortium of Longitudinal Studies Staff (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1983)
- From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development, Jack P. Shonkoff and Deborah Phillips, editors (National Academy Press, 2000)
- Head Start: The Inside Story of America's Most Successful Educational Experiment, by Edward Zigler and Susan Muenchow (Basic Books, 1992)
- How High/Scope Grew: A Memoir, by David P. Weikart (High/Scope Press, 2004)
- How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, National Research Council (National Academy Press, 2000)
- Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies?, by James J. Heckman and Alan B. Krueger (The MIT Press, 2003)
- Lifetime Effects: The High/Scope Perry Preschool Study Through Age 40, by Lawrence J. Schweinhart, Jeanne Montie, Zongping Xiang, W. Steven Barnett, Clive R. Belfield and Milagros Nores (High/Scope Press, 2005)
- Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children, by Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley (Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 1995)
- The Promise of Pre-K, Robert C. Pianta and Carolle Howes, editors (Brookes Publishing, Co., 2009)
- The Sandbox Investment: The Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics, by David L. Kirp (Harvard University Press, 2007)
- Success in Early Intervention: The Chicago Child-Parent Centers, by Arthur J. Reynolds (University of Nebraska Press, 2000)
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