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As featured in the Head's
Newsletter Autumn 2005,
'Freakonomics' findings show that the eight factors
that are strongly correlated
with test scores are:
- The child has highly educated parents
- The child's parents have high socioeconomic
status
- The child's mother was thirty or
older at the time of her first child's birth
- The child had a low birth weight
- The child's parents speak English
in the home
- The child is adopted
- The child's parents are involved
in the PTA
- The child has many books in his/her
home
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