This book is a valuable source of information on the long-term effects of early intervention programs on the education of children living in economically disadvantaged areas and in other contexts. Early intervention programs such as Head Start enjoy popular and legislative support, but until now, policymakers and practitioners have lacked hard data on the long-term consequences of such locally and federally mandated efforts. Success in Early Intervention focuses on the Child-Parent Center (CPC) program in Chicago, the second oldest (after Head Start) federally funded early childhood intervention program. Begun in 1967, the program currently operates out of twenty-four centers, which are located in proximity to the elementary schools they serve. The CPC program's unique features include mandatory parental involvement and a single, sustained educational system that spans preschool through the third grade. Central to this study is a 1986 cohort of nearly twelve hundred CPC children and a comparison group of low income children whose subsequent activities, challenges, and achievements are followed through the age of fifteen. The lives of these children amply demonstrate the positive long-term educational and social consequences of the CPC program.
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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-13
9780803245426
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117500647
Product Key Features
Author
Arthur J. Reynolds
Publication Name
Success in Early Intervention: the Chicago Child-Parent Centers
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Psychology
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
266 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Arthur J. Reynolds
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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