1st Edition
As the Twig Is Bent Lasting Effects of Preschool Programs
510 Pages
by
Psychology Press
First published in 1983. The Consortium for Longitudinal Studies was formed in 1975 to answer the question of whether early education programs had measurable long-term effects on the performance of children from low-income families. This unique collaboration of individual researchers who developed and evaluated early education programs in the sixties has now provided convincing and ecologically valid evidence of the effectiveness of these programs.
Acknowledgments, A Tribute to the Consortium, 1. History and Background of Preschool Intervention Programs and the Consortium for Longitudinal Studies, 2. The Early Training Project 1962-1980, 3. The Effects of the Perry Preschool Program on Youths Through Age 15---A Summary, 4. The Gordon Parent Education Infant and Toddler Program, 5. A Comparison of Five Approaches for Educating Young Children from Low-Income Homes, 6. The Louisville Experiment: A Comparison of Four Programs, 7. The Harlem Study: Effects by Type of Training, Age of Training, and Social Class, 8. The Mother-Child Home Program of the Verbal Interaction Project, 9. The Micro-Social Learning Environment: A Strategy for Accelerating Learning, 10. Long-Term Effects of Projects Head Start and Follow Through: The New Haven Project, 11. The Philadelphia Study: The Impact of Preschool on Intellectual and Socioemotional Development, 12. The IDS Program: An Experiment in Early and Sustained Enrichment, 13. Pooled Analyses: Findings Across Studies, 14. Discussion and Implications of the Findings, Epilogue: We Never Promised you A Rose Garden, But One May Have Grown Anyhow, Author Index, Subject Index
Biography
Consortium for Longitudinal Studies, Irving Lazar
