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...notion is backed by a new study of disadvantaged preschoolers carried out by the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation under the direction of David P. Weikart and Lawrence J. Schweinhart. In the early 1960s, researchers began to follow the progress of 123 children from poor families in Ypsilanti, Mich. Some were enrolled in a "high-quality" preschool program. The others got no such training. The researchers have monitored the children's progress ever since. Their study has found that by the age of 19, those who took the preschool classes had proved more likely to finish high school, find jobs...
...Ohio University and the Westinghouse 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...
...Rick Haber of the University of Wisconsin takes children of mother of I.Q. 70 or under and by intervention produces I.Q. of between 128 and 130 as compared to a control group of 80 I.Q. Dr. Weikart of Michigan and Dr. Levenstein of New York also report dramatic increse in I.Q. as a result of intervention...
...does not have to be paranoid or a member of the SDS to wonder why Haber and Weikart don't get the same publicity as Jensen and Herrnstein. Furthermore why doesn't the academic community challenge Jensen and Herrnstein to explain the Haber and Weikart results or publicly admit that their conclusion and insights need to be reconsidered...