Sentences with phrase «social competency nearly»

In a recent study, researchers from Penn State and Duke looked at 753 adults who had been evaluated for social competency nearly 20 years earlier while in kindergarten: Scores for sharing, cooperating and helping other children nearly always predicted whether a person graduated from high school on time, earned a college degree, had full - time employment, lived in public housing, received public assistance or had been arrested or held in juvenile detention.