This book tackles a key issue in adolescent development and health - the education-drug use connection. The authors examine the links and likely causal connections between educational experiences, delinquent behavior, and adolescent use of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine. "This is an innovative and extremely valuable book . . . The investigators address important areas of adolescent and adult development and provide extensive, compelling, and impressive data to support their hypotheses?The book?will be of great value to researchers in the behavioral sciences, as well as for educators, health care professionals, and policy makers." - Judith S. Brook, Ed.D., New York University School of Medicine "It is very clearly written and provides useful information from several excellent data sets?The authors have considerable expertise in methodology, and I very much appreciated the careful methodological instruction throughout."- Judy A. Andrews, Ph.D., Oregon Research Institute "The book is a pleasure to read, well-executed, and informative. The findings are convincing and interesting." - Nancy Galambos, Ph.D., University of Alberta "This book is a major step forward in the understanding of the predictors of educational success, substance use, and delinquency. The availability of nationally representative panel data for an eight-year period allows the authors to conduct predictive analyses heretofore impossible. Summaries are well written and accessible to lay audiencesâ?¦ This book is an important contribution to the field of adolescent development and should be of value to researchers, practitioners, and parents alike." - Liz Sale, PsycCritiques