Kids with a desk and a quiet place to study do better in school, data shows | Opinion
Kids with a desk and a quiet place to study do better in school, data shows | Opinion Updated May 15, 2021; Posted May 09, 2021 Facebook Share What often gets overlooked is whether kids have a desk at home or a quiet place to study. As researchers who focus on education policy and how students perform on standardized tests, we decided to take a closer look – on a global scale – at the degree to which students have desks at home and whether that’s linked to how well they do in school. To do this we turned to the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study, also known as TIMSS, an internati...