Effort Quote by Charles Murray

Middle-class kids get to play, develop their thinking ability. Poor kids are much more likely to get regimentation under the guise of socialization. On…

— Pedro Noguera

New York rushed to get students into early childhood programs, but the research is clear that it has to be high quality. What we…

— Pedro Noguera

“Research highlights a striking link between between encouraging child-raising and class. Half of working-class parents' interactions with their 12-18 month-olds were affirming, versus 80%…

— Betty Hart

I want the new upper class to start preaching what it practices. They are getting married and staying married in large numbers. They work…

— Charles Murray

In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their children and…

— Martin Jacques

One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children…

— James Sinegal

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

— Ayn Rand

Minority and low-income parents are just as capable as wealthy parents of identifying schools that are providing a first class education. Stop infantilizing us…

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

Kids in high poverty are much more expensive to educate and need much more support... When they're packed into a classroom of 40 people,…

— Gretchen Whitmer

Money and one of its embodiments, social class, are both riveting and mysterious to children. And if we don't challenge today's stigma around class…

— Alissa Quart

We're serious about growing our middle class.

— Marty Walsh

“This framing accents the importance of building a tidier system, one that incorporates the array of existing child care centers, then pushes to make…

— Bruce Fuller