Improving mothers' literacy skills may be best way to boost children's achievement

Just as the number one reason kids are fat is bad parenting, the number one reasons kids are stupid is bad parenting.

Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health concluded that programs to boost the academic achievement of children from low income neighborhoods might be more successful if they also provided adult literacy education to parents.

The researchers based this conclusion on their finding that a mother's reading skill is the greatest determinant of her children’s future academic success, outweighing other factors, such as neighborhood and family income.

(The poor excusinators have lost two of their favorite excuses.)

But only if the mothers give a damn after becoming literate.

An uncertainty, at best.