Childhood: born Youngstown, Ohio, son of social workers; Oberlin College: B.A., psychology, 1949-1953; service in United States Marine Corps, 1953-1955; University of Michigan: Ph.D., education and psychology, 1956-1958; psychologist, chief diagnostician, MIchigan public school system; interest in early childhood education; formation of High/Scope Perry Study: research on education of economically disadvantaged preschool children, funding from Carnegie Corporation; experiments in infant education; changes in grantmaking philosophy; reminiscences of colleagues.
Head Start programs--United States; Children with social disabilities--Education (Preschool)--United States; Children with mental disabilities--Education (Preschool)--United States; Children--Intelligence testing; African Americans--Education (Preschool); Poor children--Education (Preschool)--United States; Early childhood education; Infants--Development; Endowment of research; Psychologists; Weikart, David P; Perry Preschool Project (Ypsilanti, Mich.) Research; Carnegie Corporation of New York
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Origin Information
1998
Physical Description
107 pages
Note (Biographical)
Psychologist.
Note (Funding)
Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York
Note
Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.
Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit.
Interviewed by: Sharon Zane on February 17, 1998 and February 18, 1998.
Note (Provenance)
Gift of David P. Weikart
Note (Copyright)
Copyright held by The Carnegie Corporation of New York for session recorded in audio (Session 1). Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York for session recorded in video (Session 2), 1999.
Language
English
Library Location
Oral History Archives at Columbia, Columbia University