For over fifty years, sociologists and educators have been analyzing the relationship between a student's performance in secondary education and the socioeconomic status of his or her parents. These studies are often aimed at proving the harmful effect of poverty or divorce on a child's academic performance, and unfortunately publish skewed data only relevant to the point they are trying to prove. Interestingly enough, more than the income level or marital status of a parent unit, the greatest determining factor of a child's success is his parent's education level. The American educational system requires parents to...
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