Single motherhood and declining IAEP scores

Christian Party

Of interest to a forum on family law should be the effects on education of children now growing up in single mother households. As the percent of children in single mother households increased from 12% to almost 40%, SAT scores plunged 77 points, leaving the US in15th place out of the 19 countries which took the "Inernational Assessment of Educational Progress" test. This testing did not include countries like Japan and Germany, up to 96% of whose students take calculus in high school, versus only 4% in the US. (Source: US Dept. of Education, Digest of Education Statistics, Table 394).

The long term effects of this kind of erosion of education quality may be more devastating to society than the points already mentioned on this forum. Its adverse impact on family law as well as the rest of industry and society can only be imagined.

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Place	Country	Average Percent Correct

1	China	80.2
2	Korea	73.4
3	Taiwan	72.7
4	Switzerland	70.8
5	Hungary	68.4
6	France	64.2
7	Italy	64.0
8	Israel	63.1
9	Canada	62.0
10	England	60.6
11	Scotland	60.6
12	Ireland	60.5
13	Slovenia	57.1
14	Spain	55.4
15	United States	55.3
16	Portugal	48.3
17	Jordan	40.4
18	Brazil	37.0
19	Mozambique, Maputo	28.3

Modified Tuesday, November 02, 2010