Family Quote by Christopher de Vinck

The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your kids born…

— Paul Houston

“In the last decade, the percentage of students from families at the highest income levels who got a bachelor’s degree has grown to 82…

— Jeffrey J. Selingo

“Starting in 1964, average scores on Scholastic Aptitude Tests went steadily down, and per student spending went steadily up.33”

— James T. Patterson

Want to know why American students' SAT scores are falling? We've kicked the light of the world out of the classroom.

— John Hagee

When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.

— Patricia Schroeder

“Social scientists generally agree that students’ families (especially family income, which determines advantages and opportunity) have an even bigger impact on student performance than…

— Diane Ravitch

“works. Individual students can expect their incomes to rise roughly 8 to 12 percent for each additional year of school they complete. Nations, however,…

— Kevin Simler

“when you control for poverty, the students in the U.S. outperform nearly every nation across the globe on these same tests.”

— Terry Marselle

Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

If you are born into a family below the national median income, we provide you with an additional $500, and for every contribution made…

— Anonymous

Adjusted for inflation, somebody going to college today to a state university, is paying about 300 percent of what her mom or dad did…

— Elizabeth Warren