Study Finds Children’s Learning Suffers When Parent are Deployed

In an April 6, 2011, article, Education Week reported that a Rand Corporation Arroyo Center study found, “Army children coping with a parent’s long-term deployment-19 months or more- have lower test scores than their peers, including other military children….”

According to the article, “Overall, every month a parent is gone seems to hurt a student’s academic achievement a little, researchers found.”

The article goes on to state, “In Washington, for example, each additional month of deployment was associated with about an average of 1.18-point difference in a reading achievement scale score.”