Brett Magiil wrote >Part of the success of private schools and even public schools in >wealthy schools districts is their exclusionary nature. One of the most >consistent relationships in education is that between parents education >and academic success of children. To the degree that parents are poor
>and undereducated in high proportions, schools will perform poorly. While there is, doubtless, some relationship here, it is not strict. A stronger relationship is probably between the regard with which parents hold education and teachers. Thus, my father (who is now 80) was the child of illiterate (in English), uneducated, Russian Jewish immigrants. His father was intermittently employed as a ragpicker. My dad went to public elementary school, then a selective public high school (which do still exist, at least in NYC), then City Univ. of NY (which was a very good school) then Harvard Law. His parents made **** sure that he was getting A's. Much more recently, there are numerous cases of immigrants who do very well indeed in the public high school system. One need only read the names and brief bios of Westinghouse Science Award winners to see that this is so. Peter Peter L. Flom, PhD Assistant Director, Statistics and Data Analysis Core Center for Drug Use and HIV Research National Development and Research Institutes 71 W. 23rd St www.peterflom.com New York, NY 10010 (212) 845-4485 (voice) (917) 438-0894 (fax) . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
