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In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing…

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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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In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers… — Ernest L. Boyer
My first-grade teacher told me I was the dumbest student she ever had. She did me a favor. If she told me… — Ernest Gallo
If you're 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you're graduating high school, there has been… — Mark Steyn
Always been purple. Like I remember being in the first grade, looking up at the color charts, and saying, 'Man, purple is… — Synyster Gates
In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education… — Gaylord Nelson
When I went to first grade and the other children said that their fathers were farmers, I simply didn't believe them. I… — Jane Smiley
I almost flunked first grade and also the second, third, forth, and fifth; but my younger brother was in the grade behind… — Robert Munsch
There should be a course in first grade on love. — Andy Warhol
Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years… — Bob Keeshan
When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle,… — Beverly Cleary
If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade. — Peter McWilliams

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