did you know there’s a correlation between height and mathematical ability? Apparently all those three foot tall four and five year olds aren’t better at math than a five foot 12 year old!
I’m unsure whether the homeownership is going to be proven to be the cause of better performance, it seems likely that it’s masking the true cause, but I’ll accept it for the present. Okay, now how about all these people who are going to have owned their homes for three years or less. Are their children going to show a slight increase in performance? How long to you have to “own” a home to have a benefit. Isn’t it more critical *when* the home is owned, i.e., during the elementary school years or during the high school years? I’ll guess that the effect if any is over-shadowed by the parental involvement/expectations.
This reminds me of the Baby Einstein stuff, conveniently ignoring that people thought Albert Einstein was developmentally retarded at age six. He thought up relativity while riding in horse drawn street cars, before there were computers, or mass produced autos for that matter. I love my computer, but computers don’t seem to make for better students as far as I can see, and I suspect that computer ownership will be shown to have correlation, too, just not as much as the parents attitudes.
