Perry Preschool participants given opportunities to plan and make decisions were significantly less involved in drug use, delinquency, teen pregnancy, and school failure at age 19¶

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Currency · newest study 1991 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? In the High/Scope Perry Preschool Project 15-year follow-up, children given opportunities to plan and make decisions in preschool were significantly less involved in problem behaviors at age 19. → Benard 1991

Evidence¶

Benard 1991¶

Benard, B. (1991). Fostering Resiliency in Kids: Protective Factors in the Family, School, and Community. Western Regional Center for Drug-Free Schools and Communities, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED335781

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The review reports the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation's 15-year follow-up of the Perry Preschool Project, in which participants "were at the age of 19 significantly less (as much as 50 percent less!) involved in drug use, delinquency, teen pregnancy, school failure, etc." No standardized effect size is printed.

"they were at the age of 19 significantly less (as much as 50 percent less!) involved in drug use, delinquency, teen pregnancy, school failure, etc."

Discussion¶

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