Parents Who Own Bookshelves Raise Kids Who Do Better in School
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“Over on Core77, Rain Noe discusses a sweeping international study by a team of Stanford and University of Munich researchers, who looked at all sorts of questions about how economics, school conditions, and parents end up affecting education. But one of the most interesting tidbits concerned the fact that a child’s achievements at school are correlated to whether his or her parents own a very simple object.
That object? A bookshelf. Two, actually. According to the study’s authors, the educational achievements of British children whose parents owned two bookcases differed from children whose parents didn’t by 1.15 standard deviations. In plain language, that’s three times the amount of what the average kid learns during a year of school.
Read the full article @ Gizmodo.com.” http://gizmodo.com/-513115295
Stephen
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Thanks, Stephen. When my avid reader, bookshelf-owning goddaughter sees this, she’ll say, “In other news, water is wet.”!
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Is it exponential? If I own 6 bookshelves, is that better than 5, or does my 1 really big bookshelf count as 2 or even 4 regular sized ones?
And what about my own childhood, where my parents’ books were kept on planks balanced on bricks (rather than on ‘real’ shelves)? I need to know!
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Evidently, John Chisholm, there’s a big difference between one bookshelf and more than one…who only has one bookshelf?!
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