Findings from a 40-year experiment, which tracked three-and four-year-olds into adulthood, found that children who attended the High/Scope Perry Pre-school programme in the United States had higher-paid jobs, were more likely to graduate from high school and had committed fewer crimes.
The High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, which has been following 123 low-income black children from Michigan since 1962, released the findings in the US last month.
Larry Schweinhart, president of the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, said, 'These findings can be expected of any Head Start, state pre-school, or child care programme similar to the programme that High/Scope co-ordinated and then studied.'
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