Graduation Quote by Clint Smith

The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of ethnicity, race,…

— Clint Smith

Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools.

— Adam Fletcher

Not graduating high school on time leads to fewer chances of attending college and obtaining good paying jobs, and creates instead higher chances of…

— Al Sharpton

Schools are the single largest lever of mobility in this country. When we commit to creating and enforcing laws that acknowledge the injustice of…

— Clint Smith

The school-to-prison pipeline - the disproportionality that exists in handing out school discipline in schools to Black and Brown students for simple infractions -…

— Jamaal Bowman

In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools.

— Michelle Rhee

“by the year 2000, the lifetime risk of incarceration for black high school dropouts was ten times higher than it was for African Americans…

— James Forman Jr

There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime.

— J. C. Watts

Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.

— Bob Herbert

Schools attempt to take credit for what occurs naturally, and blame others for the negative consequences of institutionalization.

— Denise Richards

You look at the trajectories; and as our schools have declined, you see the other alternatives increase, private school, home schooling, all of the…

— Davis Guggenheim

“Regrettably, I paid far less attention to all those students less able to overcome the hostility and the sense of alienation they faced in…

— Derrick Bell