Children Quote by Dacher Keltner

“Recent research is showing that chronic powerlessness—poverty—stunts brain development in perhaps permanent ways that undermine not only school performance but also the capacity to…

— Dacher Keltner

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.

— Chris Van Hollen

Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.

— Anna Deavere Smith

Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.

— Michelle Rhee

As a child, I have seen what poverty is, and I try, to the best of my limits, to ensure that no kid should…

— Jackie Shroff

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

Poverty places not just one or two obstacles but multiple obstacles in a child's pathway to what we would consider to be regular development…

— Geoffrey Canada

Education is the antidote to poverty.

— Arvind Kejriwal

During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In…

— Sal Albanese

The impact of poverty on our kids and their learning. That's something I've understood pretty intimately throughout my career as an educator.

— Jamaal Bowman

Poverty damages the educational potential of children, whether through stress or poor diet, while overcrowded, poor-quality housing has the same impact too.

— Owen Jones

I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should…

— Joe Klein