(F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“I’m Briana Fallon. Do you have a conventional first name, too, or did your parents anticipate your future academic achievements when they… — Marko Kloos Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately for Black teenagers, those cultural stereotypes do not usually include academic achievement.” — Beverly Daniel Tatum Copy Share Image
What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades.… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers;… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
There are so many different ways in which someone is 'intelligent.' In my opinion this doesn't always have to be measured by… — Stacey Solomon Copy Share Image
Many families move to Ilford North because of our excellent schools and their reputation for academic achievement. — Wes Streeting Copy Share Image
When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas… — William Watson Purkey Copy Share Image
My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will… — Nel Noddings Copy Share Image
“If young people are exposed to images of African American academic achievement in their early years, they won’t have to define school… — Beverly Daniel Tatum Copy Share Image
“The larger purpose of school integration was to solve the American dilemma, but integration had three specific goals of its own: Lift… — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
“high-reactive child’s ideal parent: someone who “can read your cues and respect your individuality; is warm and firm in placing demands on… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Men do really dumb things. We see weapons of mass destruction where there are none. We over-emphasize sports. We place athletic achievement… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we… — Brad Sherman Copy Share Image
“My longitudinal studies show these three virtue clusters predict different outcomes. For academic achievement, including stellar report card grades, the cluster containing… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“The three castes were “nucleus” (or “core”), “basic” (or “wavering”), and “hostile.” Three criteria determined your caste: your birth and background, your… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Educators and psychologists have a mantra these days: No matter how hectic the schedules of your family members may be, make time… — Julie Lythcott-Haims Copy Share Image
“It is noteworthy that socioceconomics—that is, poor neighborhoods and poor schools—are prominent in both settings. Long ago, the Coleman report (1966) concluded… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
“Although you set your goal of getting a B, when your first exam score, worth 30% of your final grade is returned,… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“Society has traditionally reinforced the idea that girls are inferior to boys, that girls can't take care of themselves, and that women… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
“Ethan’s parents constantly told him how brainy he was. “You’re so smart! You can do anything, Ethan. We are so proud of… — John Medina Copy Share Image
“Around the world, people who studied parenting usually divided the various styles into four basic categories: Authoritarian parents were strict disciplinarians, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Decades of research have shown that experiences at home and in neighborhoods have far more influence on children’s academic achievement than classroom… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“McWhorter claims that low black educational achievements are not the result of racism but of an attitude within the black community that… — Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“I've come to believe in my bones that children - especially children in poverty - are desperate for an education to help… — Shanna Peeples Copy Share Image
Labour politicians ask 'Why do so few children from poor backgrounds go to university?' Well, I'll tell them. It's because they don't… — Damian Green Copy Share Image
With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
We found out that the young people who had a substantial number of lessons in the Resolving Conflict Creatively Curriculum ... not… — Linda Lantieri Copy Share Image
It has been proven time and time again in countless studies that students who actively participate in arts education are twice as… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which… — Vernon L. Smith Copy Share Image
I want to see a New Story education, which is not only about intellectual knowledge - not only about measurement - not… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
There is no clear, commanding body of evidence that students' sustained use of multimedia machines, the Internet, word processing, spreadsheets and other… — Larry Cuban Copy Share Image
Maybe I was accepted to Harvard only because of my tennis skills, since I definitively had no great academic achievements. I was… — Jorge Paulo Lemann Copy Share Image
“After writing about their favorite TV shows, participants verbally expressed fewer feelings of loneliness and exclusion than when describing the filler TV… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
I think for what success looks like for me, it is a world in which you can look at the achievement scores,… — Michelle Rhee Copy Share Image