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The Two Secrets to Kids Succeeding in School

The Two Secrets to Kids Succeeding in School

I recently read a blog by Annie Holmquist entitled “Easy as a Sunday Morning.”

She cites a study by Dr. Pat Fagan that revealed that children performed better in school if they came from intact families. And they performed even better when that intact family regularly attended church.

Pat Fagan, a clinical therapist, notes, “The impact of religious worship is massive and powerful right throughout education. And it is a neglected aspect of education research. It is a scandal in the social sciences that this data is not made known.”

Annie Holmquist dug into the research. It revealed that of the students who received mostly “A” s in school,