“ The best escalator to opportunity in America is education. ”
moral voices can also become sanctimonious bullies.
~ Nicholas Kristof
America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.
When we have a narrative in mind, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it.
Most moms and dads, they want to be good moms and dads. But it's an incredibly hard job when you are stressed out, when you are poor, when your life is in chaos. And giving them some of the tools to be better parents, to whittle away at that parenting gap, gives those kids a much better starting point in life.
