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Direct linkHeckman, James J.; Karapakula, Ganesh – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
This paper presents the first analysis of the life course outcomes through late midlife (around age 55) for the participants of the iconic Perry Preschool Project, an experimental high-quality preschool program for disadvantaged African-American children in the 1960s. We discuss the design of the experiment, compromises in and adjustments to the…
Descriptors: Experimental Programs, African Americans, Males, Adolescents
Peer reviewedJames, Adrienne Brant – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2008
Traditional approaches to education and youth work were transformed by two psychologists who came to the United States as Hitler rose to power. Practical theorist Kurt Lewin challenged mechanistic ideas of behavior by studying children in their natural "life space." Theory practitioner Fritz Redl applied life space concepts to work with…
Descriptors: Psychologists, Experimental Programs, Adolescents, Theories
