Study: SDA Schools Significantly Ahead

Adventist EducationThe first analysis of all available research that compared 3 types of schools: religious, public and charter schools, was released recently in a presentation at Notre Dame University.  The author, Dr. William H. Jevnes had positive comments about Adventist School.  The analysis combined data from all the recent 90 published studies in recent year, most of them from refereed academic journals.

Dr. Jeynes is known as the architect of economic and education plan that enabled the Republic of Korea to recover from the late 1990′s Asian economic crisis.

Below are a few quotes from the lecture at Notre Dame and interview that Dr. Jeynes gave to Adventist Today (Adventist Today is not affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church)

“Students attending faith-based schools had an academic advantage of approximately one year over their counterparts in both public and charter schools”

This advantage was maintained even what the data was control for socioeconomic status, ethnicity and gender.

“I was quite surprised that students from charter schools did no better than their counterparts in traditional public schools”

Specifically regarding Adventist Schools, the advantage is at 11 months. Also, behavioral advantages were even greater than the high scholastic advantage. For the high school age the advantages even increase.

“…Students in Adventist secondary schools are 12 months ahead of their counterparts as compared to 10 months for students in Adventist elementary schools… The primary reason for this is the high school students attending Adventist schools have been attending those schools longer than the younger students, and the …advantage tends to accumulate over time”

Read the complete article at: Study of Education Outcomes Places Adventist Schools Significantly Ahead of Public School