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Occasional Paper 5, Ford Foundation Project on Social Welfare and the American Future. An analysis of what makes a quality preschool program and how early childhood education can start children on the road to achieving their potential.

Weikart, David P.
1989
36 pages


Executive Panel Ford Foundation Project on Social Welfare and the American Future
Contents
Foreword
Footnotes
Quality Preschool Programs
The Background: Children in Poverty
The Case for Preschool Education
Evidence: the Perry Preschool Project
The Curriculum
The Validity of the Study
Toward an Evaluation
Follow-Up Studies
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Factors That Contribute to Successful Life Patterns
Factors That Contribute to Successful Preschool Programs
Curricular Factors
Parent Involvement
Program Quality
Preschool in the 1980S: What States Are Doing
Policy Issues
Conclusion
Notes
Strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation and advance human achievement.
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