Title: Interview (February 18, 2009)

Summary: President of High/Scope Research foundation, Larry Schweinhart, Ph.D, found in his research that there are long term societal benefits to pre-kindergarten programs that began at both ages 3 and 4, and believes that because it benefits society more than the individual it is a public good and should be publicly funded. 

Topic: zero to five

Category: Expert Citizen

What is it? skype interview with Dr. Larry Schweinhart

Publication Information: Not published

Author: Larry Schweinhart

Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan

Accessed: February 18, 2009

Support:

Larry Schweinhart represents an expert source who supports early pre-k, but also sees flaws in current government allocation of funds.

Audience and Agenda:

Schweinhart formerly performed extensive academically accepted research that supports pre-k education. His work has been done to support the High/Scope preschool approach, and also to inform lawmakers of the benefits of preschool programs.

Usefulness: This source will be useful because it adds expert opinions to specific questions on my research. I will use integrate the information and opinions of Dr. Schweinhart when explaining faults in current spending and how spending should be made. He also gave expert insight on why preschool should be publicly funded and not privately in addition to why public preschool has been unsuccessful in the past. He answered all of my questions without leaving anything out and gave me names of people I should contact.

Works Cited:

http://nieer.org/about/bio.php?PersonID=23