tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458172893016186479.post-65104640522355651662008-06-20T09:06:00.000-05:002008-06-20T09:06:00.000-05:00No, I would not presume that schools serving primarily high-SES populations schools are any more effective with low-SES kids than low-SES schools. The data doesn't really support such a conclusion. See <A HREF="http://d-edreckoning.blogspot.com/2008/03/theory-iv-do-poor-students-perform.html" REL="nofollow">here</A> and follow the links.<BR/><BR/><I>Is your theory that the low-SES kids who were adopted by high-SES families then "became" high-SES by virtue of adoption? </I><BR/><BR/>The adoption served as a massive environmental intervention. The adopted children grew up in a high-SES environment, sometimes from birth (as in the <A HREF="http://www.psych.umn.edu/courses/spring06/mcguem/psy5137/readings/plomin%201997.pdf" REL="nofollow">Colorado Adoption Project</A>). No, the adopted children did not become high-SES (because SES has a genetic component), but their environment was changed to high-SES (to a much greater extent than anything that can be accomplished via a governemental intervention, such as Broader Bolder).<BR/><BR/><I>My understanding of the adoption studies is that they show that genetics, early childhood, or pre-natal factors had a large effect on children ... so large that it couldn't be overcome by adoption into middle class families.</I><BR/><BR/>The studies all has similar outcomes. Some of the studies had adoptions from birth or very shortly thereafter. The level of pre-natal care among the low-SES parents in the US does not cause depressed IQ. <BR/><BR/><I> Alternatively, because the adopted children were black or multi-racial, perhaps the study seems to show that the effect of societal prejudice against the adopted children based on their race was a deleterious force in their academic achievement.<BR/></I><BR/><BR/>Not all the adopted children were black, some were white, and they showed the same biological parent similarities.KDeRosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06853211164976890091noreply@blogger.com