Stressful conditions from outside school are much more likely to intrude into the classroom in high poverty schools. Every one of ten stressors is two to three times more common in high poverty school...
Without succumbing to political nightmares, we might ponder whether the bleak, socially estranged future facing poor kids in America today could have unanticipated political consequences tomorrow. So...
The achievement gap between children from high income and low income families is roughly 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than among those born 25 years ago. The class gap among students ente...
Slavery was, in fact, a social system designed to destroy social capital among slaves and between slaves and freemen.
Schools themselves aren't creating the opportunity gap: the gap is already large by the time children enter kindergarten and does not grow as children progress through school. The gaps in cognitive ac...
Poor kids, through no fault of their own, are less prepared by their families, their schools, and their communities to develop their God-given talents as fully as rich kids. For economic productivity...
Upper-class parents enable their kids to form weak ties by exposing them more often to organized activities, professionals, and other adults. Working-class children, on the other hand, are more likely...
We all know that the way to get something done is to give it to a busy person.
Contemporary discussion of inequality in America often conflates two related but distinct issues: • Equality of income and wealth. The distribution of income and wealth among adults in today’s America...
Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.
TV-based politics is to political action as watching ER is to saving someone in distress.
Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement
Social dislocation can easily breed a reactionary form of nostalgia.
People divorced from community, occupation, and association are first and foremost among the supporters of extremism.
Many people have a stereotype of what it means to be poor. And it may be somebody they see on the street corner with a sign: Will work for food. And what they don’t think about is that person who’s st...
If we think of politics as an industry, we might delight in its new labour-saving efficiency, but if we think of politics as democratic deliberation, to leave people out is to miss the whole point of...
More plausible suspects in our mystery are the things that students collectively bring with them to school, ranging from(on the positive side of the ledger) academic encouragement at home and private...
In the quarter century between 1979 and 2005, average after-tax income (adjusted for inflation) grew by $900 a year for the bottom fifth of American households, by $8,700 a year for the middle fifth,...
1. Institutions shape politics. The rules and standard operating procedures that make up institutions leave their imprint on political outcomes by structuring political behavior. Outcomes are not simp...
{The Progressives] outlook was activist and optimistic, not fatalist and despondent. The distinctive characteristic of the Progressives was their conviction that social evils would not remedy themselv...
