Areas Quote by Jonathan Kozol

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

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

Twenty per cent of American children grow up in poverty, and that means they get inadequate nutrition, inadequate health care, and because we have…

— Joseph Stiglitz

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

“Virtually all of the advantage that wealthy students have over poor students is the result of differences in the way privileged kids learn while…

— Malcolm Gladwell

In New York City, the idea that district schools advance equality is a myth.

— Eva Moskowitz

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

Cities that tend of have better schools for middle-income families, they tend to have much better prospects for kids moving up in the income…

— Raj Chetty

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

Schools, the institutions traditionally called upon to correct social inequality, are unsuited to the task; without economic opportunity to follow educational opportunity, the myth…

— Kenneth Keniston

“Or take school attendance. Everybody seems to have different ideas on how to raise it. We should pay for uniforms. Advance school fees on…

— Rutger Bregman

Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful,…

— Bobby Scott