U.S. students with at least one parent in a skilled occupation generally scored 56 points higher on the assessment than students whose parents have semi-skilled or elementary occupations.
Using current definitions, 60% of children living in poverty today have at least one parent in work.
A study recently found that one parent in seven is unable to find an appropriate place for his children.
An estimated 558,000 children lost at least one parent in the Burundian civil war; about 77,000 lost both.
They also have only one parent in the home, their mother, who shares that bed with them at night.
And one parent, in an unsigned note, wrote about the loss of two sons: Police Detective Joseph Vigiano, 34, and Firefighter John T. Vigiano II, 36.
Jobs once paid enough that only one parent in many families needed to work, saving them from expenses like day care.
Even better, raise money for the school or join the P.T.A. "If you're an activist, you definitely have an in," said one parent in Ridgewood, N.J.
One parent in the district, Joan Blaso, said today that she was sorry that the news had put Northern Highlands in such a bad light.
About 4 in 10 in that second generation have at least one parent in the United States illegally, which means the immigration status of the family is mixed.
"The attitude in the best schools has generally been, 'We succeed in spite of, not because of, the Board of Education,' " said one parent in Manhattan's District 2, which has many of the city's top schools.
