City Quote by Eva Moskowitz Download Open image “In New York City, the idea that district schools advance equality is a myth.” — Eva Moskowitz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare City Equality Myth New New york New york city York City
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 Copy Share Image
The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Creating a more equal society means tackling the inequalities that emerge before children even start school. — Liz Kendall Copy Share Image
“Equality of opportunity in education aims to insure us against disparities arising from the situation in which we are born” — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“In Hollywood films and television documentaries, the battle lines are clearly drawn. Traditional public schools are bad; their supporters are apologists for the unions. Those who advocate for charter schools, virtual schooling, and “school choice” are reformers; their supporters insist they are championing the rights of minorities. They say they are leaders of the civil rights movement of our day.… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share
“As inequality has grown, as its negative consequences have become harder and harder to ignore, our response has been to put more and more weight on the educational system, to look to school reform as the means of closing the 'achievement gap' and of guaranteeing the increasingly illusory promise of equal opportunity. We ask the education system to expiate the… — Christopher Hayes Copy Share
“Equality doesn’t exist in nature and therefore can be established only by force. He who wants geographic equality has to dynamite mountains and fill… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
I assure you: If I were to hear a teacher raise a voice at a kid or anything, that goes against the model, and… — Eva Moskowitz Copy Share Image
Success isn't ideal for every child. If we think a child would do better in a different school, whether it's a specialized program or… — Eva Moskowitz Copy Share Image
No matter how good a teacher is, if that teacher won't play as part of the team, you're better off without her. — Eva Moskowitz Copy Share Image
I've never believed the charter movement was exclusively for socially and economically disadvantaged kids. — Eva Moskowitz Copy Share Image
I didn't design schools for poor kids. I'm designing schools to be world-class. — Eva Moskowitz Copy Share Image
Parents who don't like Success should find a school they do like. For someone to enroll their child at Success and insist we change… — Eva Moskowitz Copy Share Image
Sometimes when kids look like they're daydreaming, it's because they are, and we can't allow that possibility. — Eva Moskowitz Copy Share Image
I'm very, very focused on not only creating world class schools at scale, but changing the public policy in this country that every day… — Eva Moskowitz Copy Share Image
I am a Democrat and disagree with virtually all of President Trump's policy positions, including those on healthcare, LGBTQ rights, civil rights, immigration, global… — Eva Moskowitz Copy Share Image
It is very challenging to have a kind of data-driven, performance-oriented culture and to do progressive pedagogy. These things don't naturally, or easily, go… — Eva Moskowitz Copy Share Image
I believe education is a bipartisan issue, and I intend to support those educational policies of President Trump with which I agree. — Eva Moskowitz Copy Share Image
Whatever you think rigor looks like, you should go up a few notches. — Eva Moskowitz Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of people come out of Carol City, but I had this distinct vision for Carol City, just me coming out… — Denzel Curry Copy Share Image
I always say if you put someone from a small town into a big city for ten years, then when they go back, they'll… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
I've been to Manchester enough to know it's a real place. It's not Factory Records and the Smiths bicycling around. I get it. It's… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I get paid to play, to win, to give the city pride, so maybe everybody can forget for a little while how hard life… — Randall Cunningham Copy Share Image
In my first 100 days as Ontario's Minister of Transportation, I found a willing municipal partner in the City of Toronto that shares our… — Caroline Mulroney Copy Share Image
Even after my family moved West, I would come back to Long Island as a teenager, stay with aunts and go to the city… — Everlast Copy Share Image
We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition… — Edin Dzeko Copy Share Image
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
We have an obligation at the local level to do everything we can with the resources we have. And we do those things. But… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
