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46.
Ibid., pp. 32, 35.
47.
Ibid., pp. 3435.
48.
Ibid., p. 35.
49.
Elkind, pp. 3435.
50.
Ibid., p. 4.
51.
Karweit, pp. 98-99.
52.
Reynolds et al., p. 10.
53. For more on the quality and findings of the research
on early intervention, see Karweit, pp. 75102; and Bryant
and Maxwell, pp. 2346.
54.
Reynolds et al., p. 8.
55. Lawrence J. Schweinhart, Significant Benefits: The
High/Scope Perry Preschool Study through Age 27 (Ypsilante,
Mich.: High/Scope Press, 1993).
56. Edward Zigler, Cara Taussig, and Kathryn Black,
"Early Childhood Intervention: A Promising Preventative for
Juvenile Delinquency," American Psychologist 47, no. 8
(August 1992): 1000.
57. For a complete program description, see Lawrence
Schweinhart and David Weikart, "The Effects of the Perry
Preschool Program on Youths through Age 15: A Summary," in
the Consortium for Longitudinal Studies, As the Twig Is
Bent--Lasting Effects of Preschool Programs (Hillsdale,
N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1983), pp. 7181.
58. Lawrence J. Schweinhart, "Lasting Benefits of
Preschool Programs," ERIC Digest EDO-PS-94-2, January 1994,
http://ericps.ed.uiuc.edu/eece/pubs/digests/1994/
schwei94.html.
59. Schweinhart, Significant Benefits, p. 55; and
Schweinhart, "Lasting Benefits of Preschool Programs," p. 2.
60.
Ibid.
61.
Zigler, Taussig, and Black, p. 1002.
62.
Ibid., p. 1000.
63.
Locurto, pp. 299305.