id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt news-001017 New research on Christian school graduates yields surprising results | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame .html text/html 568 10 14 The two-year study surveyed a representative sample of religious school graduates in the U.S. (ages 24 to 39) to determine the impact of Christian schools on adults in today’s society as well as understand how Christian schools are attempting to define themselves in today’s socio-cultural and economic landscape. In the first study of its kind on K-12 Christian education in North America, University of Notre Dame sociologist David Sikkink, in partnership with Cardus – a public policy think tank – found that while Protestant Christian school graduates show uncommon commitment to their families and churches, donate more money than graduates of other schools, and divorce less, they also have lower incomes, less education, and are less engaged in politics than their Catholic and non-religious private school peers. cache/news-001017.html txt/news-001017.txt