Equality Quote by Diane Ravitch

“Race to the Top was only marginally different from No Child Left Behind. In fact, it was worse, because it gave full-throated Democratic endorsement…

— Diane Ravitch

Competitive programs such as Race to the Top provide incentives for communities to develop new solutions for old problems. Because of Race to the…

— Michael Bennet

The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all,…

— Raghuram Rajan

“Education should not be a competition resulting in winners and losers. Education should be a competition against ignorance, and all should be encouraged to…

— K.A. Brill

“dozens of school districts forwent federal funding rather than integrate their schools.”

— Isabel Wilkerson

There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.

— James S. Coleman

“Equality of opportunity in education aims to insure us against disparities arising from the situation in which we are born”

— Jean Tirole

So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues.

— Bobby Scott

Schools, the institutions traditionally called upon to correct social inequality, are unsuited to the task; without economic opportunity to follow educational opportunity, the myth…

— Kenneth Keniston

Education is not a race, with winners and losers. It's not a commodity to be bought and sold.

— Grace Llewellyn

Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.

— Guy Finley