Why you can't blame Korean mothers for obsessively worrying about their kids falling behind

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Saturday, May 23, 2009

Why you can't blame Korean mothers for obsessively worrying about their kids falling behind

Second, we have evidence from the natural experiment that is summer vacation. During those three months out of school, the cognitive skills of children in lower socioeconomic status (SES) households tend to stall or actually regress. Kids in high-SES households fare much better during the summer, as they’re more likely to spend it engaged in stimulating activities. In his book Intelligence and How to Get It, cognitive psychologist Richard Nisbett concludes that “much, if not most, of the gap in academic achievement between lower- and higher-SES children, in fact, is due to the greater summer slump for lower-SES children” (p. 40).

-- Lane Kenworthy

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