Black or white Quote by Booker T. Washington

“When the norms associated with race take on a static and determining quality, they can be very difficult to undermine. Students who receive a…

— Pedro A. Noguera

“The racial separation we see in schools might also be seen as an element of the “hidden curriculum,” an unspoken set of rules that…

— Pedro A. Noguera

“It is time that we squarely face the fact that institutional schoolteaching is destructive to children.”

— John Taylor Gatto

“School should become the place where teachers, not just students, learn.”

— Vijay Dhameliya

Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

— Rand Paul

“Our schools are no closer in connecting the education of children to their development as human beings: each child as an individual with a…

— Paula Polk Lillard

Schools should be integrated by race and by class.

— Nikki Giovanni

“If we want to build schools where parents and teachers are fighting to get in instead of out, we must make developing positive school…

— Jimmy Casas

“Fifty years after Brown, we should have learned that there is no magic in white classmates. The magic lies at the intersection of educational…

— William Raspberry

“The purpose of school is for children to learn, not for them to feel good about themselves all the time.”

— Jean M. Twenge

“But black students were left on their own.”

— Isabel Wilkerson

“A few white children were friendly, but others were hostile or simply distant. Teachers unthinkingly added to both problems by physically separating black students…

— Derrick Bell