Over the past 40 years, societal efforts to promote children's development and academic success have expanded significantly. Most of the attention has been on improving the non-family institutions that serve children—especially the health, childcare, and education systems—and there has been far less attention to improving parenting. Yet, parenting is of critical importance, especially with respect to protecting and promoting the basic physical, emotional, social, and cognitive development of children. In this interview, Stanford Law Professor Michael Wald speaks about the likelihood that children growing up in the bottom 15-20% will stay in the bottom 15-20%, and what society should do about it.
This interview followed Wald's SCOPE Brown Bag Lecture: "Improving Educational Outcomes By Improving Parenting" on December 9, 2013.
