Is Breastfeeding the Answer to our Literacy Problems? Probably Not.
Is Breastfeeding the Answer to our Literacy Problems? Probably Not.
Stephen Krashen
A recently published Australian study on the impact of early breastfeeding on school test performance at age 10 captured the interest of the media, but the most important results for educators were typically not included in these reports.
Researchers found that breastfeeding for longer than six months was a significant predictor of reading, spelling and math test scores at age ten for boys, but not girls. This finding is clearly of great importance to medicine.
Inspection of their data shows, however, that other predictors were much more powerful, including family income,
