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

“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

Social mobility has always been a slippery term, with nebulous markers of success: how many state school children have to achieve postgraduate degrees, or…

— Dawn Foster

Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.

— James S. Coleman

“How can we, as parents, raise resilient, self-driven children who are truly prepared for a world that’s rapidly changing, when traditional schooling often prioritizes…

— Dr Jade Blake

“For example, parent support could be most important in the early grades, when children's academic self-image is just beginning to coalesce, but over time,…

— Karl Alexander

Every child is entitled to an academic education. But resilience, stickability, self-esteem - they need these things, too, and even more than the privately…

— Nicky Morgan

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

Education is the social bedrock for the hopes and dreams of our children and the foundation that is necessary for their future prosperity.

— John Hickenlooper

“It is noteworthy that socioceconomics—that is, poor neighborhoods and poor schools—are prominent in both settings. Long ago, the Coleman report (1966) concluded that family…

— Karl Alexander

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

— Novalis

“The Long Shadow implicates family resources and early constraints with regard to socioeconomic standing in young adulthood. The internal environment of the family is…

— Karl Alexander