Daniel Patrick Moynihan's report on SAT scores, as reported in NEA Today:
-Higher the family income, the higher the SAT scores; at every level of $10K, the students did significantly better.

RAND Study on NAEP 1970-1990.
-Better educated parents result in better educated students.
-Smaller the family, the higher the achievement.

US Dept. of Ed.
-#1 education spending at the federal level is for child nutrition programs.
-Grants for the disadvantaged is #2.
-Education for the handicapped is only 9.5% of the fed. budget in education, but they signed into law that they would cover 40% of sp. ed. costs.

1990 Census:
-14% of our countryís children donít speak english at home.
-1 of every 6 Americans working full-time was still below the poverty level.  (See Sen. Moynihan, above).

Kaiser Family Foundation, and National Center for Juvenile Justice
-70% of parents work, so their teenagers are unsupervised more than ever before.
-by age 15, 20% of both males and females have had sexual intercourse; by 18, 60 percent of them.
-25% of 8th graders admit to have used alcohol in the last 30 days; 15% cigarettes, though both trends are going down.
- 98% of teens report their favorite free time activity is watching television, followed by listening to music, then doing chores (21.7 hours per week for 8th graders).
-teens age 12-15 report having $25-30 per week in spending money.
-85% of teens say that "mom cares very much" about them, 58% report the same about dad.

Nat'l Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.
LA Times, Aug. 30,
Teens in two-parent families who have fair or poor relationships with their fathers are 68% more likely to use drugs than those in the average two-parent household that was surveyed. In contrast, children reared by their mothers alone were 30% more likely to use drugs than those living in the average two-parent home.

TIMSS study:
LA Times, David Friedman, Mar. 15, ë98
-US Students the youngest in the survey, avg. 18.1 yrs old, with 21.2 Iceland, 19.8 -Switzerland, and 19.5 for Germany & Norway.  Students in top 7 performing countries were 1.3 years older than their US counterparts.
-Test scores were all close.  We lost to Germany by 5%, France by 7%
-American Asians did better than any country on the test, but inner-city students gave us a low avg. result.