Around the world, better parenting makes for better students, new international study says (Julie Mack blog) MLive.com: Fifteen-year-old students whose parents often read books with them during their first year of primary school show markedly higher scores in PISA 2009 than students whose parents read with them infrequently or not at all.
The performance advantage among students whose parents read to them in their early school years is evident regardless of the family’s socio-economic background.
Parents’ engagement with their 15-year-olds is strongly associated with better performance in PISA.
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