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William Jeynes

William Jeynes is Professor of Education at California State University, Long Beach. He graduated first in his class from Harvard University. He has served as a speaker and advisor for three presidential administrations, as well as for several G20 foreign governments and the European Union. Bill has 165+ academic publications, including 14 books.

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Faith and Family Play a Bigger Role in Academic Achievement Than Race or Socioeconomic Status

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The phrase “achievement gap” refers to the well-documented discrepancies between the scholastic achievements of African American and Latinos on the one hand and white students on the other. What explains the gap? 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.

“Fake History” is More Dangerous Than “Fake News”

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Fake history has established the foundation for fake news.
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“Defactualization” Is Causing American Schools to Become Bastions of Anti-Intellectualism

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Truth has been relegated to a secondary position in the nation’s public schools, universities, political forums, and public squares.
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The Data Are In: Religious Private Schools Deserve a Second Look

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A recent meta-analysis of 90 studies on religious private schools, traditional public schools, and charter schools shows that students perform best academically and behaviorally when they attend religious private schools.
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The Two-Biological-Parent Family and Economic Prosperity: Where to Go From Here

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Five suggestions for how our nation can regain a healthy marriage culture and the economic prosperity and personal flourishing that comes with it. The second in a two-part series.
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The Two-Biological-Parent Family and Economic Prosperity: What’s Gone Wrong

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Research shows the positive economic effect of two-biological-parent families on our society. Single parenthood and other alternative family structures not only hurt our economy, they hurt our children, those who care for them, and those for whom our children will care later in life. The first in a two-part series.
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