Achievement gap Quote by Lisa Delpit Download Open image ““There is no achievement gap at birth.”” — Lisa Delpit ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Achievement gap African-american-literature Birth Educational-inequity Success
The word gap leads to an achievement gap and has life-long consequences — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“None of our achievement matters, than how we have lived our lives.” — Lailah Gfty Akita Copy Share Image
“How presumptuous they both had been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge.” — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
When people say: 'What's your biggest achievement?' Giving birth. Forget the rest of it. — Emma Hayes Copy Share Image
“Achievers move forward at all times. Achievement is not a plateau, it's a beginning.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“Even the best inborn potentialities for achievement do not render unnecessary patient and persistent practice.” — Ralph Alfred Habas Copy Share Image
“Currently, “minority” students represent a majority in all but two of our twenty-five largest cities, and by some estimates, the turn of the century… — Lisa Delpit Copy Share Image
When one 'we' gets to determine standards for all 'we's' then some 'we's' are in trouble. — Lisa Delpit Copy Share Image
Progressive white teachers seem to say to their black students 'Let me help you find your voice. I promise not to criticize one note… — Lisa Delpit Copy Share Image
“If there’s someone who doesn’t understand what I’m teaching, I try to understand who they are. A” — Lisa Delpit Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs. — Lisa Delpit Copy Share Image
We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs. To put our beliefs on hold is… — Lisa Delpit Copy Share Image
Those with power are frequently least aware of -- or least willing to acknowledge -- its existence [and] those with less power are often… — Lisa Delpit Copy Share Image
If you want to get at African American poverty, the income gap, wealth gap, achievement gap, that the most important thing is to make… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I was so sure that I knew what they needed and what I wanted to sell them that I never stopped long enough to… — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to… — Margaret Spellings Copy Share Image
In DC, policymakers think that if we can only have high enough standards, tough enough tests, and hold people accountable, we can close the… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
If we want to close the achievement gap, build a well-educated workforce and responsible citizenry, we must start with our youngest children. — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
To me the question right now is: How do I close that first three-quarters of the achievement gap, education gap, wealth gap? What gives… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The word gap leads to an achievement gap and has life-long consequences — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“Everything would have been for nothing just because I simply didn’t listen.” — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators. — Margaret Spellings Copy Share Image
“Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare.” — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
