Religion, Intact Families, and the Achievement Gap

William H Jeynes Professor - Department of Teacher Education Office: ED2 - 267 Phone: 562-985-5619 Email: wjeynes@csulb.edu

William H. Jeynes Department of Education California State University at Long Beach. Non-Resident Research Fellow Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion. New Baylor ISR Study Analyzes Minority Education Achievement Gap. Findings Reveal Similarities in Families Where Gap Is Eliminated. WASHINGTON, D.C. – The achievement gap between white students and their African American and Latino counterparts is not as immovable as many educators and social scientists believe, according to results from a new Baylor University Institute for Studies of Religion analysis of the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS).

“The findings show that when highly religious African American and Latino students from intact families are compared with white students, the achievement gap disappears,” said Dr. William Jeynes, a non-resident scholar with the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR) and professor of education at California State University in Long Beach.

Jeynes’ report was published in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion and released to the media April 3 in a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

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