«Only if our country faces the consequences of growing income inequality will it be able to maintain its rich heritage of upward social mobility through educational opportunity.» (gse.harvard.edu)
As such, mobility is an important factor for upward social mobility for middle class Americans, where they can increase their earnings and their life standards... (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
These findings challenge the prevailing assumption that children in the United States have a better chance of attaining upward social mobility through education than students in other industrialized nations, according to Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Richard J. Murnane and University of California, Irvine Professor Greg J. Duncan. (thecrimson.com)