“This policy brief reviews the evidence on intergenerational mobility and the role of education in enabling less advantaged children to move up the economic ladder. It concludes that, in many respects, the U.S. education system tends to reinforce rather than compensate for differences in family background. This policy brief reviews the full report, by the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and the Brookings Institution, called The Future of Children, Opportunity in America (Vol. 16, No. 2). The nine articles in this issue focus on the extent to which children’s chances of success depend on the circumstances into which they are born.” – Publisher’s description
