As the Twig Is Bent: Lasting Effects of Preschool Programs

Consortium for Longitu, Irving Lazar

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