Children Quote by Richard Thaler

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

“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

Middle-class kids get to play, develop their thinking ability. Poor kids are much more likely to get regimentation under the guise of socialization. On…

— Pedro Noguera

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

Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the…

— Sal Albanese

“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

The reason why I'm so passionate about turning around failing schools is that children who have the misfortune to go to unsucccessful institutions are…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Schools alone are not to blame for underachievement. The breakdown of the family, poverty, and decaying cities with eroding tax bases have made a…

— Bob Beckel

Half of all kids in public education are below the poverty line. Two-thirds of the achievement gap comes from factors outside of school. Teachers…

— Randi Weingarten

“If pupils suffer from attention disorders, stress and low grades, perhaps we ought to blame outdated teaching methods, overcrowded classrooms and an unnaturally fast…

— Yuval Noah Harari

It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least coincident with…

— John Dewey

All parents want to send their children to the best possible schools. But because a good school is a relative concept, a family cannot…

— Robert H. Frank