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The proliferation of ambitious new social programs beginning with the Great Society initiative in the 1960s begged the important questions “Does this program work?” and “Does this program work better than something or nothing?” Many believed that requiring evaluation of initiatives would help build a body of knowledge regarding which policy ideas and programs are effective. The Perry Preschool Project, a high-quality preschool program for African American children from disadvantaged backgrounds carried out from 1962 to 1967, has been characterized as a social program that worked based on evidence from experimental evaluation design. The following activity invites students to reflect on and discuss an evaluation of the Perry Preschool Project.