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- So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories…
- An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically…
- I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling…
- Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future…
- If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to…
- There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of…
- Schooling should not be left to the whim or wealth of village elders. I believe that we should fund all schools in the U.S. with…
- So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun and flee and…
- It is our nation which is blind, and needs our prayers.
- I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not…
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