Nicole Baker Fulgham > Quotes

“At the nation’s top 130 colleges and universities, only 9 percent of first-year students are from the bottom half of the nation’s household income distribution, while 91 percent are from families in the top half of the income range.”
― Nicole Baker Fulgham, Educating All God's Children: What Christians Can--and Should--Do to Improve Public Education for Low-Income Kids

“Our country has more than seven times as many churches as it does high-poverty public schools. Seven times as many! That raises the question, What can individual churches do to help ensure children in these public schools achieve at the highest levels?”
― Nicole Baker Fulgham, Educating All God's Children: What Christians Can--and Should--Do to Improve Public Education for Low-Income Kids

“On average, students in low-income communities are three grade levels behind their peers in affluent communities by the time they are in fourth grade.[12]”
― Nicole Baker Fulgham, Educating All God's Children: What Christians Can--and Should--Do to Improve Public Education for Low-Income Kids

“High school dropouts earn about $10,000 less each year than high school graduates and $35,000 less each year than college graduates. Over the course of a lifetime, a college graduate will earn, on average, $1 million more than a high school dropout.[63]”
― Nicole Baker Fulgham, Educating All God's Children: What Christians Can--and Should--Do to Improve Public Education for Low-Income Kids

“If segments of the population are marginalized, the Church is obliged to make extraordinary efforts to rectify social fragmentation.”
― Nicole Baker Fulgham, Educating All God's Children: What Christians Can--and Should--Do to Improve Public Education for Low-Income Kids

“A basic moral test is how our most vulnerable members are faring. In a society marred by deepening divisions between rich and poor, our tradition recalls the story of the Last Judgment (Matt. 25:31–46) and instructs us to put the needs of the poor and vulnerable first.”
― Nicole Baker Fulgham, Educating All God's Children: What Christians Can--and Should--Do to Improve Public Education for Low-Income Kids