[NMScience] Study: Children left behind before school starts

[Ellen Loehman]

Four major factors driving students' standardized test performance aren't
even within schools' control, according to a new Educational Testing Service
study. Simply by knowing the percentage of students who were often absent,
raised by a single parent, not read to daily or watched five or more hours
of TV daily, researchers were able to predict each state's results on a
federal test with "impressive accuracy," The New York Times reports. The
states that scored lowest tended to be those that had the highest
percentages of children who met each of the four criteria.

The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/09Rparenting.htm
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Ellen Loehman
loehman at aps.edu