"Americans raised in poor families do markedly less well compared to those from middle class or affluent homes—and it …"

"Here’s a fact that may not surprise you: the children of the rich perform better in school, on average, than children…"

"What is news is that in the United States over the last few decades these differences in educational success between …"

"The academic gap is widening because rich students are increasingly entering kindergarten much better prepared to suc…"

"[R]ising income inequality explains, at best, half of the increase in the rich-poor academic achievement gap. It’s no…"

"We’ve barely given a thought to what the rich were doing. With the exception of our continuing discussion about wheth…"

"The public defunding of universities, along with their seizure by corporations and the uber rich, is part of the slow…"

"The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us as a nation. If we are to have another c…"

"The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; f…"

"The United States ... celebrates rote vocational training and the singular, amoral skill of making money. It churns o…"