September 4, 1998
Mormons Found to Be Exception to Rule on Education in Big Families
By DAVID L. WHEELERA sociologist who had found that children from large families have lower academic achievement went hunting for exceptions and found one: Mormons.
Douglas Downey, an assistant professor of sociology at the Ohio State University, published a study in 1995 reporting that as the number of children in a family increased, the grades and standardized-test scores of all of the children went down,
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