Children Quote by Karl Alexander

“Family life during the early elementary years is our point of departure. Lower socioeconomic status (SES) and disadvantaged minority youth begin school already behind…

— Karl Alexander

“Brain studies of low SES children have shown them to be less able to filter out irrelevant information in a learning situation. Although this…

— Terry Marselle

There's five factors or characteristics of places where kids from poor backgrounds don't do very well. And those are places that have more economic…

— Gwen Ifill

Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.

— Solomon Ortiz

Remember that disadvantage is less about income than environment. The best metrics of child poverty aren't monetary, but rather how often a child is…

— Nicholas Kristof

If you have fewer teenagers having children, they could focus more on their vocational development.

— Tom Golisano

In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools.

— Michelle Rhee

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.

— Kailash Satyarthi

When the kids see the poverty in their neighborhood, but they see these successful kids who come from the countries they come from, come…

— Rafe Esquith

Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity…

— Jonathan Kozol

Child poverty in the United States declined after the work requirement was put in there. People realized that they had to work and people…

— Thomas Sowell

We know that children living in a household with someone in work do better in school, have better educational attainment, and are more likely…

— Esther McVey