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What do students’ beliefs about God have to do with grades and going to college?

  • Written by Ilana Horwitz, Assistant Professor, Fields-Rayant Chair in Contemporary Jewish Life, Tulane University
What do students’ beliefs about God have to do with grades and going to college?How do students' religious lives influence their academic ones?Image Source via Getty Images

In America, the demographic circumstances of a child’s birth substantially shape academic success. Sociologists have spent decades studying how factors beyond students’ control – including the race, wealth and ZIP code of their parents...

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