Word: schweinhart
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...Learning Corp., among others, concluded that Head Start made very little long-term difference in the children. Now comes evidence that the benefits of high-quality preschool programs can last at least through age 15. That finding was made by Michigan Researchers David P. Weikart, 49, and Lawrence J. Schweinhart, 33, who last week released an interim report on an 18-year study of the progress of 123 low-IQ children at Perry Elementary School in south Ypsilanti, Mich...
...cost of the preschool program was $5,984 a child for two years. Weikart and Schweinhart estimate, though, that eventual dollar savings for society could be considerable, not only because of less remedial instruction in school, but because of decreased expenditures for law enforcement and social welfare...
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