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Teachers, education advocates, and parents have important perspectives about what students need to thrive after high school that often get crowded out of the research and policymaking processes. For this series, Washington, DC–based education community members share stories about supporting students in and beyond school to help us understand what it takes to set kids up for upward mobility, especially those from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Read more about our community listening sessions (PDF).
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“[If mental health isn’t] taken care of, you cannot even move on to secondary functions like learning, like thinking about upward mobility, like financial stability.”
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“I think the most important thing we have to give them before they leave is the confidence that they can learn and that they can make the connections they need to make socially to be able to advance.”
“I think success looks differently for all of us, and I would just love for them to find out what would make them happy or what they want to do.”
“I don't want my daughter to abide within the confines of the oppressor's gaze. I want her to have a liberated mindset.”
“I think kids are feeling that if I don’t go to college or if I don’t have an A in a class, that I’m not capable or I’m not going to be successful. And that’s simply not true.”