CLD 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Studies, Highscope, Longitudinal Study
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Started as an early intervenion program in the 1960s. Goals include: valuing each individual child and family culture, supporing home language, strongly encouraging family home visits. The perry preschool study is a pivotal study contribuing to current awareness of the impact of high-quality early childhood programming. A program group that received a high-quality preschool program based on. A comparison group who received no preschool program. Longitudinal study gathering date over a period of 40 years. Large percentage of original paricipants sill a source of data. 97% of the study paricipants sill living were interviewed at age 40. Higher level of schooling by age 27. Spent fewer years in remedial/special needs educaional programs. Less likely to be arrested or be repeat ofenders. Current aciviies of the high/scope educaional research foundaion include: publish curriculum and teacher-training resources, publish assessment tools, conduct and disseminate research, foundaion site includes a lab school. Fity-eight learning goals that serve as a foundaion to the curriculum.