Journal of Education and Human Development

Does Attendance in Private Schools across the K-12 Years Predict Individual Outcomes through Young Adulthood?
Robert C. Pianta, PhD.; Arya Ansari, Ph.D.; Deborah L. Vandell, Ph.D.

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This study was directed by a steering committee and supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) through a cooperative agreement (U10), which calls for scientific collaboration between the grantees and the NICHD staff. Participating investigators, listed in alphabetical order, are: Jay Belsky, Birkbeck University of London; Cathryn Booth-LaForce, University of Washington; Robert Bradley, University of Arkansas, Little Rock; Celia A. Brownell, University of Pittsburgh; Margaret Burchinal, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Susan B. Campbell, University of Pittsburgh; K. Alison Clarke-Stewart, University of California, Irvine; Sarah L. Friedman, CNA Corp., Alexandria, Virginia; Kathyrn Hirsh-Pasek, Temple University; Renate Houts, Research Triangle Institute; Aletha Huston, University of Texas, Austin; Jean F. Kelly, University of Washington; Bonnie Knoke, Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle, NC; Nancy Marshall, Wellesley College; Kathleen McCartney, Harvard University; Fred Morrison, University of Michigan; Marion O’Brien, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Margaret Tresch Owen, University of Texas, Dallas; Robert Pianta, University of Virginia; Wendy Robeson, Wellesley College; Susan Spieker, University of Washington; Deborah Lowe Vandell, University of California, Irvine; Marsha Weinraub, Temple University. We express our appreciation to the study coordinators at each site who supervised the data collection, the research assistants who collected the data, and especially to the families and child-care providers who welcomed us into their homes and workplaces and cooperated willingly with our repeated requests for information. The end-of-high-school SECCYD and age 26 data used in this report were collected as part of a grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Grant # 2006-00365.01 and 2017-00786) awarded to Deborah Lowe Vandell. Additionally, the age 23 and transcript data were collected by Robert Crosnoe with funding from the William T. Grant Foundation.

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