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...professionals. Today it examines teachers and administrators, demands that early-childhood programs meet criteria of health and safety and continually reviews facilities to make sure its standards are being met. When the association outlines the future it wants, it often points to the Perry Preschool Project in Ypsilanti, Mich. Back in 1962, this project selected 123 children ages three and four to take part in an experimental program. All came from families at the poverty level. Half the group was given two years of preschool instruction, 2 1/2 hours a day, five days a week for 30 weeks. The aims...
...implications for society are as plain as chalk marks on a blackboard: the relatively high cost of the original program -- $5,000 a year for each preschooler -- was actually a bargain. The results at Ypsilanti are echoing louder across the country, not only in facilities for the underprivileged but also in preschools everywhere. Twenty-seven states now fund prekindergarten facilities -- a huge jump from only seven in 1979. And the early-childhood boom goes on unabated. Some 1,700 nationally accredited public programs operate in the U.S.; an additional 4,300 are actively seeking accreditation...
Ever since 1960, when Tom Monaghan opened his first pizza outlet in Ypsilanti, Mich., the eccentric tycoon has been expanding his empire like a spinning wheel of pizza dough. But now that his Domino's chain has 5,100 stores and sales of $2.3 billion, Monaghan is suddenly ready to move on. In a letter to employees and franchise owners, the pizza king disclosed that he is looking for ways to sell Domino...
...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...
...side, Wendy Smith plays a mandolin with a country band called Blue Velvet. His friend Donald Clay, a Ford worker in Ypsilanti, Mich., also has a band, North Country Grass. "We was raised up together," says Wendy. "There was only one well on Ranger Ridge, and his daddy had it, and we carried water from...