This article is a reasonable representation of a report released by UNICEF compaing the rates of teenagers in OCED countries lagging in reading and mathematics. What is interesting - and you have to read the full report to get this, is the the best predictor of whether a teen will lag is the economic status of the parent. Thus we see that marginal improvements in a child's early education - such as the provision of good nutrition - have a noticible effect in high school. What is not an predictor, interestingly, is the amount of money spent on the teens education.
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