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The OP stated that homework makes success more strongly correlated with socioeconomic status. I would guess that this is because households with better socioec
by Periodic 16y ago
The OP stated that homework makes success more strongly correlated with socioeconomic status. I would guess that this is because households with better socioeconomic status tend to give their children more attention and expose them to the correct ideas, sort of how the word-exposure studies showed that exposure to a large vocabulary in infancy swamps socio-economic status in terms of literacy, but it happens to be strongly correlated with socioeconomic status.
From this I would guess that if you want your child to really do well, you need to make sure they practice the right things. So make your 3rd grader to the homework and help them so that you know they're practicing the right thing. The studies cited by the grand-parent comment never say that practice of the right thing is bad.
- btilly 16y agoThat is basically right. However in households with lower socioeconomic status the problem isn't lack of attention from the parents. The parents TRY to help. But they are less likely to succeed, because they lack the academic skills needed.
- patio11 16y agoHowever in households with lower socioeconomic status the problem isn't lack of attention from the parents. The parents TRY to help. This is the opposite of the educators in my family, my own experience as an educator, my book learning on pedagogy, and my experience as a student. It also runs screamingly against the difficulty that, in the United States, children with lower socioeconomic status are disproportionately unlikely to have parents.