Dalton Conley, a sociology professor at Princeton University and an expert on class structure and economic mobility in the U.S.was asked, “If someone has achieved a higher socioeconomic status than his or her parents, which factors proved most significant?”
Conley replied: “Only two measurable socio-economic aspects of the parents really matter in predicting who succeeds: the parents’ education, which is the most important, and the family’s wealth, which is the second most important. By ‘wealth’ I don’t mean how much the parents make a year. I mean net worth, including savings, property, and other financial resources.”
Can the American system of education widen that path to success? I’m not sure, but it certainly won’t happen while Betsy DeVos is in charge.
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