Want your kids to stay in school longer and do better in life? Get some books into your house. Now.
Well, yeah. If you needed proof that having books around the house can have a positive influence on your kid's education, there's a new Scientific Study (that should always be capitalized, right?) to make the point. According to this article in Salon, children with as few as 25 books in the house stayed in school two years longer, on average, than kids from homes with no books.
For that matter, growing up in homes with 500 books (there were more at my parents' house and far more than that in my house) is "as great an advantage as having university-educated rather than unschooled parents, and twice the advantage of having a professional rather than an unskilled father."
This all strikes me as something that ought to be self-evident, but I suppose it never hurts to have that Scientific Study to back you up.
Hat tip: The Rap Sheet blog.
Cross-posted to LB's Rambles.
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