I dislike the title of this article (sensationalism to get more page views), but the message behind it is a good one: students do better when parents take an active role in their education.
The Real Reason America's Schools Stink (Business Week)
If there’s a crisis in U.S. education, the fault lies with a group more accustomed to leveling blame than receiving it: parents...
Around the world, the catch-all measure used to proxy for parental commitment to education is the number of books in a child‘s household. This measure predicts student educational outcomes better than class sizes, or expenditures per student, the length of the school day or better class monitoring. Hanushek and Woessman have found that among 27 rich countries, the United States sees one of the strongest relationships between parental book ownership and child learning outcomes. In the U.S., kids from homes where there are more than two full bookcases score two and a half grade levels higher than kids from homes with very few books.
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