Helping with homework and discussing topics that your child may have difficulty with can help him or her do better in school. Parents need to be more aware that time spent in school may not be sufficient for students to receive adequate educational instruction. There should be some interaction with studies outside of school hours. Unfortunately, socioeconomically disadvantaged students often struggle in school, especially if their parents do not have higher levels of education. In the book Savage Inequalities: Children in America's School, Kozol (1992) believes that “poorer parents, often the result of inferior education, lack of access to information and the ability to navigate an often hostile and intimidating situation, for funnel their children to the best schools, get the applications and help them prepare for the necessary tests.” Even if parents receive the necessary information about their children's education, they do not respond because they have not understood the purpose or investigated it. It's not that many parents don't care to know, they just seem to lack understanding or