[CALIBK12] [CSLA Research Update] Student achievement study

[Lesley Farmer]

Children left behind before school startsFour major factors driving
students' standardized test performance aren't even within schools'
control, according to a new 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 states that scored lowest tended to be those that had
the highest percentages of children who met each of the four
criteria.Educational Testing Service. (2007). The Family: America's
Smallest School. Princeton, NJ: Author.www.ets.org/familyreport

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