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There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized…

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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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I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the… — Josephine Baker
They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as… — Amy Chua
Gangsta Rap is dead. I've moved on. And the raps that I'm rappin to my community shouldn't be filled with rage? They… — Tupac Shakur
We must stop using the Bible as though it were a potpourri of inerrant proof-texts by which we can bring people into… — Robert D. Brinsmead
They used to give us a day-it was called International Women's Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the Year of… — Bella Abzug
They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom. — Robin Ince
When they gave me that trophy, bro, I cried. — Dennis Rodman
Personally, I liked working for the university. They gave us money and facilities. We didn't have to produce anything. You've never been… — Dan Aykroyd
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. — Unknown Author
Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots… — Richey Edwards
He laid it on George, me and our wives without telling us at a dinner party at his house. He was a… — John Lennon

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