Comment by wisty
If the parents cared and were well educated then those numbers would be much better, simply by them helping kids with homework etc. But schools shouldn't require that.
If the parents cared and were well educated then those numbers would be much better, simply by them helping kids with homework etc. But schools shouldn't require that.
John Ogbo actually studied this and came to a similar conclusion, that much of the racial achievement gap (specifically where he studied in Oakland California) can be closed by parents investing time into their kids education. He was decried as a white supremacist (he's black, by the way).