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Refereed Journal Articles on HighScope Curriculum Research

HighScope Perry Preschool Study: General 

Luster, T., & McAdoo, H. (1996). Family and child influences on educational 
        attainment: a secondary analysis of the High/Scope Perry preschool data. 
        Developmental Psychology, 32, 23–39.

Muennig, P., Schweinhart, L., Montie, J., & Neidell, M. (2009). The effect of 
        a pre-kindergarten education intervention on adult health: 40-year 
        follow-up results of a randomized controlled trial. American Journal of 
        Public Health, 99(8), in press.  
Schweinhart, L. J. (2000). The High/Scope Perry Preschool Study: A Case Study 
        in Random Assignment. Personal author, compiler, or editor name(s); 
        click on any author to run a new search on that name. Evaluation
        and Research in Education, 14(3&4), 136–147.

Schweinhart, L. J., & Weikart, D. P. (1988). The High/Scope Perry Preschool 
        Program. In R. H. Price, E. L. Cowen, R. P. Lorion, & J. Ramos-McKay (Eds.),
        Fourteen ounces of prevention: A casebook for practitioners. Washington, 
        DC: American Psychological Association.
Farnworth, M., Schweinhart, L. J., & Berrueta-Clement, J. R. (1985, Fall). 
        Preschool intervention, school success and delinquency in a high-risk 
        sample of youth. American Educational Research Journal, 22, 445–464.

Schweinhart, L. J., Berrueta-Clement, J. R., Barnett, W. S., Epstein, A. S., 
        & Weikart, D. P. (1985, Summer). Effects of the Perry Preschool Program 
        on youths through age 19 – A summary. Topics in Early Childhood 
        Special Education, 5, 26–35.
Schweinhart, L. J., & Weikart, D. P. (1981, December). Effects of the Perry 
         Preschool Program on youths through age 15. Journal of the Division
         for Early Childhood. Reston, VA: Council for Exceptional Children.

Weikart, D. P. (1966). Preschool programs: Preliminary findings. Journal of 
         Special Education, 1(2), 163–181.
HighScope Perry Preschool Study: Economic

Barnett, W. S. (1985). Benefit-cost analysis of the Perry Preschool Program 
         and its policy implications. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 7(4),
         333–342. 
Barnett, W. S. (1992). Benefits of compensatory preschool education. The 
         Journal of Human Resources, 27(2), 279–312.

Barnett, W. S. (1993). Benefit-cost analysis of preschool education: Findings
         from a 25-year follow-up. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 63(4), 
         500–508. 
Belfield, C. R., Nores, M., Barnett, W. S., & Schweinhart, L. J. (2006). The 
         High/Scope Perry Preschool Program: Cost-benefit analysis using 
         data from the age-40 follow-up. The Journal of Human Resources, 41(1),
         162–190.

Heckman, J. J.; Moon, S. H.; Pinto, R., Savelyev, P. A., & Yavitz, A. Q. (2009). 
         "The Rate of Return to the HighScope Perry Preschool Program," Journal 
         of Public Economics, in press.
Nores, M., Belfield, C. R., Barnett, W. S., & Schweinhart, L. J. (2005). Updating 
          the economic impacts of the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program. 
          Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 27(3), 245–261.

HighScope Preschool Curriculum Comparison Study
    
Schweinhart, L. J., & Weikart, D. P. (1997). The High/Scope Preschool Curriculum           
          Comparison Study through age 23. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 12, 
          117–143.

Schweinhart, L. J., Weikart, D. P., & Larner, M. B. (1986, September). Child-initiated
          activities in early childhood programs may help prevent delinquency. 
          Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1, 303–312.

Schweinhart, L. J., Weikart, D. P., & Larner, M. B. (1986, March). Consequences
          of three preschool curriculum models through age 15. Early Childhood 
          Research Quarterly, 1, 15–45. 
Other Studies

Frede, E., & Barnett, W. S. (1992). Developmentally appropriate public school 
         preschool: A study of implementation of the High/Scope curriculum 
         and its effects on disadvantaged children's skills at first grade. Early 
         Childhood Research Quarterly, 7, 483–499.
Lazar, I., Darlington, R., Murray, H., Royce, J., & Snipper, A. (1982). Lasting 
         effects of early education: A report from the Consortium for Longitudinal 
         Studies. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 
         47(2–3, Serial No. 195).

REVIEWS INCLUDING HIGHSCOPE RESEARCH

Schweinhart, L. J. (1999, April). Evaluation of early childhood programs. 
          Comprehensive Psychiatric Assessment of Young Children, A Monograph 
          of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinics of North America, 8, 395–407.
Schweinhart, L. J., & Weikart, D. P. (1991, September). Response to "Beyond 
          IQ in preschool programs?" Intelligence, 15, 313–315.

Schweinhart, L. J., & Weikart, D. P. (1990, June 8). Research support for Head 
          Start. Science, 248, 1174–1176 .
Schweinhart, L. J., & Weikart, D. P. (1988). Early childhood education for 
          at-risk four–year-olds? Yes. American Psychologist, 43, 
          665–667, 42, 254–260.

Schweinhart, L. J., & Weikart, D. P. (1988). Education for young children living
          in poverty: Child-initiated learning or teacher-directed instruction? 
          Elementary School Journal, 89, 213– 225.

 


 
 

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