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Parents’ jobs linked more strongly than education to teens’ PISA scores, study finds

Knowing what parents did for a living allowed researchers to account for over double the difference in students’ scores as knowing how much education the parents had.

  • Parent occupation stronger influence than education on teens' PISA scores
  • Fathers' jobs in tech, science linked to higher children's performance
  • Mothers' jobs in tech correlated with higher children's reading scores

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