Areas Quote by Robert Reich

We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished…

— Diane Watson

To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce…

— Adam Davidson

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

“The low standards of our state-run schools and our weak infrastructure have especially hurt the poor in terms of access: those of us who…

— Nandan Nilekani

It's hard to improve our schools. It's hard to redistribute wealth created by the concentration of technological and financial power or to increase middle-class…

— Glenn Kelman

Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.

— Amartya Sen

Sure, integrating schools may sound benign. But whats the use of living in a gated community if my kids go to school and get…

— Stephen Colbert

You look at the trajectories; and as our schools have declined, you see the other alternatives increase, private school, home schooling, all of the…

— Davis Guggenheim

“But by the end of two years, most have either changed careers or moved to suburban schools - a consequence of low pay, a…

— Barack Obama

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

When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. When you have poor schools, you…

— Malcolm X