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“If a country puts its entire focus on making sure that the education system improves, then that's the kind of progress that you can see.”

Michelle Rhee

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

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My grandfather was a teacher, my grandmother on my mom's side, four of my aunts, my sister-in-law, my best friend. So I've always, my…

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There’s a belief now that the problem with our schools is parents, that if we just had better parents we would have better performing kids and, therefore, we wouldn’t have a problem at all. But what’s missing in that equation is that you do have a lot of parents in this country who are very involved in their children’s education…

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That should be the goal, is that every kid in every neighborhood, despite whatever challenges they may face, are getting a great education in…

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Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.

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If you grew up in a lower-income community, or less well-off, the belief is that the way to change that circumstance is through education.

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We need to identify the least effective or ineffective teachers and for those people we need to either quickly accelerate their practice or move…

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I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's [American] economy…

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I believe that the teachers unions are doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing. They were designed to be professional organizations that protect…

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We've lost our competitive spirit. We've become so obsessed with making kids feel good about themselves that we've lost sight of building the skills…

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Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing their jobs.…

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We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights, privileges and priorities of adults.

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If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred…

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There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless of jobless.

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The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how…

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It's very nice to be a rebel saying, 'I stand on my principles,' but if in fact that's not going to have any impact…

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Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is other currency. Most countries hold reserves and the reserves are other currencies. If you are a backing up the euro with the dollar, what's backing up the dollar? I don't think it is going to go…

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That's what this country is. It's made up of immigrants.

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You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.

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The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of…

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In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no…

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