Improvements in education and educational quality are widely acknowledged to be major contributors to black economic … progress in the Twentieth Century. This paper investigates the sources of improvement in black education in the South in the … philanthropy, in improving the quality and availability of public schooling. Many scholars view education as a rival to social …

because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility. …

support the claim of substantial economic benefits from preschool education programs. Previous studies of the rate of return …