This matters because education leads to opportunity. What happens to the second and third generations is the story of the future of California.

When parents have little education and few resources, their kids simply have more ground to make up. Given the compelling role socioeconomic conditions play, the state should consider bolstering programs that assist parents -- such as improving adult literacy and English language skills -- and that target workplaces.

America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

We are now faced with a new opportunity that came only after generations of Chinese have fought hard with sweat and blood.

There is really no gap between generations, just a gap in one's ability to learn from another.

Given the opportunity, we'd rather read than do anything else.