Bibliography Quote by Gloria Steinem

Teachers and librarians can be the most effective advocates for diversifying children's and young adult books. When I speak to publishers, they're going to…

— Pat Mora

It's hilarious when school textbooks try too hard at being racially diverse. 'Brad, Latisha, Pablo and Kwan were doing a math problem...'

— Anonymous

We need a whole bunch of books about people of color, kids on the spectrum, etc. It's strange that we have a population of…

— Kekla Magoon

If, in schools, we keep teaching that history is divided into American history and Chinese history and Russian history and Australian history, we're teaching…

— David Christian

I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary.…

— Suzy Amis

If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it…

— Lisa Delpit

Not only do we need to focus on classrooms, but adult literacy is a huge issue in historically marginalized communities. That's a crisis, and…

— Deray McKesson

Increasing the diversity of what we teach is critical to providing students with a better understanding of who we are as a society and…

— Ned Lamont

It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our children must…

— Ernest L. Boyer

The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.

— Susan Sontag

“Whether white, black, Asian, or Latino, American students rarely arrive at college as habitual readers, which means that few of them have more than…

— David Denby

My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

— Peter Diamandis