Adult Outcomes as a Function of an Early Childhood Educational Program: An Abecedarian Project Follow-Up

New findings from the long-running, highly regarded Abecedarian Project (opens in a new window), led by the FPG Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill show that adults who participated in the high quality early childhood education program in the 1970s are still benefitting in a variety of ways. For example, at age 30, Abecedarian Project participants had significantly more years of education than the control group and were four times more likely to have earned college degrees (23% of participants compared to only 6% of the control group).