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idiot: If I understand your point, it is that kids from two-parent families do better on all standardized measures of achievement than those from other arrangements. On that we can agree. We would, however, disagree on two points. First, having a "junkie daddy" is not the "real world", but rather the world of pathology and dysfunction. Most children do not have "junkie daddies", thank God, and to assess the academic skills gleaned from "junkie daddy" parents does little to enhance society. Second, tests are not "skewed" to measure what "affluent white kids know". Do you think there's a mystical boogie-man constructing test items to which only white kids know the answer? Further, sorry to inform you that most individuals constructing standardized tests do not come from privileged backgrounds. Based upon recent results, however, it would appear that these tests do a very accurate job of measuring exactly what they claim to measure (validity), and do so quite consistently (reliability). When kids apply for jobs, they are asked about their literacy, not "junkie daddy" or gang status. And THAT is the real world.