Making Education Work for the Poor: The Potential of Children's Savings Accounts

By Willliam Elliott and Melinda Lewis

Book Overview

Making Education Work for the Poor identifies wealth inequality as the gravest threat to the American education system. Today, wealth, rather than individuals' effort and ability, determines educational outcomes. This book calls for universal Opportunity Investment Accounts to be the cornerstone of the wealth-building agenda the nation needs to salvage the American Dream.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190866845
• ISBN13: 9780190866846
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"