Lorine Pruette was born in a small rural town in Tennessee to college-educated parents.

Students who attend private schools, for instance, are more likely to have college-educated parents and more extracurricular activities, he said.

Apart from the technology, college-educated parents began demanding improved material in the 70's and 80's.

"We get a good response from college-educated parents as well as those parents who didn't finish high school," she says.

Students with college-educated parents and those whose science classes include experiments in which the students actively participate had the best test results.

Most college-educated parents share the suspicion that if they applied today, they would not get into their alma maters.

Applications should be available in Spanish and shouldn't require essay questions (as they now do) that only a college-educated parent can complete.

Parents with only a grade-school level education punish bedwetting children at twice the rate of high-school- and college-educated parents.

On the same assessments, 12th-grade boys, even those with college-educated parents, do far worse than girls on reading and writing.

Most students come from Catholic families with professional and college-educated parents.