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The Craig Fahle Show

Strong Correlation Between Preschool and Successful Future

Monday, April 16, 2012

Craig is joined by Sharon Claytor Peters, Consultant of HighScope Educational Research Foundation has conducted the High/Scope Perry Preschool study. It is a scientific experiment that has identified both the short- and long-term effects of a high quality preschool education program for young children living in poverty. From 1962 through 1967, David Weikart and his colleagues in the Ypsilanti, Michigan, school district operated the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program for young children to help them avoid school failure and related problems.

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