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I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.

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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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