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- Perry Preschool Longitudinal Study demonstrated the effectiveness of the HighScope Preschool Curriculum. This study examined the effects through forty years old. It was a studied that focused on the lives of one hundred and twenty-three children that were born in poverty and had a higher risk of failing school. In the years 1962-1967, the children were randomly selected to go to a high quality preschool program. When the children were forty years old, they were interviewed. The study showed that the adults who went to the better preschool had higher earnings, able to hold a job, committed fewer crimes, and graduated from high school.
- HighScope Preschool Curriculum Comparison's Study was a study that compared the HighScope Curriculum along with Traditional Nursery School and Direct Instruction Model. There were sixty-eight students that were randomly selected to the different curriculum groups. The students were in poverty and had a higher risk of failing school. The HighScope and Traditional Nursery School focused on child-initiated activities compared to the Direct Instruction which focused on academics. At age fifteen, the students who had HighScope and Traditional Nursery School had less delinquent activity. At age twenty-three, the students had fewer arrests, fewer years in emotional Special Education, and a higher level of schooling. The study showed that the child-initiated activities contributed to the development of a student's sense of personal and social responsibility.
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