Wow, a sociologist that’s correct for a change. I certainly agree. I grew up with books, magazines and newspapers and so did my children. I’ve also have seen evidence based on the No Cild Left Behind testing and demographics on what made the best performing schools. The best performing schools in every state had one key demographic: the highest percentage of parents with a college degree. I’d boil that down to on thing, parents that cared about academics. It also helps to have parent to re-teach subjects that screw up teachers didn’t teach well.
Correlation does not establish causation.