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Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal No Child Left…

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More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I…
We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do…
What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe.…
Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of…
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is…
If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand…
As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are…
Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value…
Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image…
So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge…
Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.

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There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing. — David Canary
One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer… — Ruben Hinojosa
If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for… — Ruben Hinojosa
With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies… — Sue Kelly
I don't think losing 3 million jobs, having deficits as far as the eye can go, having 2 million people lose their… — John F. Kerry
The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting… — Jim Clyburn
We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all… — Bob Filner
The interesting thing now for No Child Left Behind is that there are very few advocates for it; there is no constituency… — Bob Schaffer
There is no child left within me, none whatsoever. — Harrison Ford
People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child. — Elizabeth Edwards
If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark. — Leopold Fechtner
There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids. — Mark Jackson

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