Faith and Family Matter More Than Race and Status When It Comes to Children: Study

The main topic this study wanted to tackle involved “achievement gaps” — that is, as the study put it, “the well-documented discrepancies between the scholastic achievements of African American and Latinos on the one hand and white students on the other.”

The study’s author, William Jeynes, further explained the crux of his findings: “My meta-analysis revealed that if an African American or Latino student was a person of faith and came from a two biological parent family, the achievement gap totally disappeared, even when adjusting for socioeconomic status.”