My family life is a deep source of satisfaction.
The separate water foundations, park benches, bathrooms and restaurants of the Jim Crow South startled me. These experiences motivated my lifelong study of the status of African Americans and the sources of improvement in that status.
The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion.
I remember that, one day, I was visiting one training center in the 1990s that was teaching people how to fix Volkswagen engines from the 1960s, which were no longer sold. So you were training people on a skill that had zero value. The reason is that they hadn't received any new equipment in 20 years.
It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.
I'm instinctively cautious because I'm an academic.
