race or family in- come.)
In elementary schools, 40 percent of one-parent children, but only 24 per- cent of two-parent children, were clas- sified as low achievers (having "D" or "F" averages). Only 17 percent of single-parent grade schoolers and 2 1 percent of secondary students earned "A" or "B" averages. But 30 percent of two-parent students in elementary school and 33 percent enrolled in junior high and high school qualified as "high achievers."
One-parent...