“Our schools will not improve if we continue to focus only on reading and mathematics while ignoring the other studies that are… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
Marylanders have led the nation in adopting a balanced approach to revenues and investments because we know that in order to maintain… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Building great public schools and universities, a strong health care system, including keeping the Affordable Care Act, and then an economy that… — Joaquin Castro Copy Share Image
I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational… — Janet Napolitano Copy Share Image
My son Bill, who came to me in 1960-he was 14 then, quoted the old parable to me: "It is not by… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“No matter how much money you had, your children attended the public schools or the small Catholic one and made friends across… — Brian Alexander Copy Share Image
Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place. — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
“Taft ended his opinion with an added clause, a statement so bold that it would rattle even his strongest supporters. The chief… — Adrienne Berard Copy Share Image
'Middle class' used to mean having two children and sending them to high-quality public schools, or even occasionally to private schools. It… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
America is at war with itself because it's basically declared war not only on any sense of democratic idealism, but it's declared… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Beating up on public schools is not just our nation's favorite blood sport, but also a favorite conversational entertainment of the well-off… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
“If we don't save the public schools, we're not going to save very much else." I use this line all the time.… — Bruce Deitrick Price Copy Share Image
“Since the turn of the century, American fundamentalists had reveled in their sense of persecution by an infidel elite, but in the… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“New Rule: You don't have to teach both sides of a debate if one side is a load of crap. President Bush… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Though I was born a Muslim, my father's job as a medical officer meant that we travelled a great deal and I… — Saeed Jaffrey Copy Share Image
“Emergency food has become very useful indeed, and to a very large assortment of people and institutions. The United States Department of… — Janet Poppendieck Copy Share Image
Now have two generations whose minds have been totally perverted, polluted, and destroyed by the American public education system, and, in particular,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
My son William is only nine but he's had four public schools so far, one in Cornwall, one when I was at… — Neil Warnock Copy Share Image
We went to public schools from kindergarten through seventh grade, and it was fun. — Dylan Sprouse Copy Share Image
My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher. — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
