{"id":121,"date":"2007-12-10T11:34:23","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T15:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=121"},"modified":"2007-12-10T11:34:23","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T15:34:23","slug":"ets-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"ETS study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/09\/nyregion\/nyregionspecial2\/09Rparenting.html?ei=5088&#038;en=d44049b23686d358&#038;ex=1354856400&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss&#038;pagewanted=print\">Times<\/a> presents an interesting study from ETS: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The E.T.S. researchers took four variables that are beyond the control of schools: The percentage of children living with one parent; the percentage of eighth graders absent from school at least three times a month; the percentage of children 5 or younger whose parents read to them daily, and the percentage of eighth graders who watch five or more hours of TV a day. Using just those four variables, the researchers were able to predict each state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s results on the federal eighth-grade reading test with impressive accuracy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The actual study is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ets.org\/portal\/site\/ets\/menuitem.1488512ecfd5b8849a77b13bc3921509\/?vgnextoid=ddc571ae769b5110VgnVCM10000022f95190RCRD&#038;vgnextchannel=1fe7a5b55c8b5110VgnVCM10000022f95190RCRD&#038;vgnextnoice=1\">here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times presents an interesting study from ETS: The E.T.S. researchers took four variables that are beyond the control of schools: The percentage of children living with one parent; the percentage of eighth graders absent from school at least three times a month; the percentage of children 5 or younger whose parents read to them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=121\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ETS study<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-1X","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}