Quotes by : Robert D. Putnam

Schools themselves aren't creating the opportunity gap: the gap is already large by the time children....

The achievement gap between children from high income and low income families is roughly 30-40% larger....

Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated....

Slavery was, in fact, a social system designed to destroy social capital among slaves and between slaves....

Stressful conditions from outside school are much more likely to intrude into the classroom in high poverty....

Poor kids, through no fault of their own, are less prepared by their families, their schools, and their....

In the quarter century between 1979 and 2005, average after-tax income (adjusted for inflation) grew....

Upper-class parents enable their kids to form weak ties by exposing them more often to organized activities,....