A helpful look at long-term educational outcomes, A First Look at 2002 High School Sophomores 10 Years Later is an intriguing longitudinal study from the US Department of Education that tracked the 2002 class of sophomore students through their next ten years of life. Among its findings, A First Look reveals that Private and Catholic school graduates were much more likely to acquire a Bachelor’s degree or higher than they public school peers, almost twice as likely.
