Balance Quote by Miguel Cardona

Schools should be diverse if we are to get past racial differences.

— Ruby Bridges

There is a racial element: It's undeniable. We've had inequitable funding of schools for decades in the state of Michigan.

— Gretchen Whitmer

All of our schools should be good enough to attract a healthy racial mix, which, I believe, leads to the most effective learning for…

— Ruby Bridges

“It's a worthy, essential aim to seek 'youth from every quarter.' Institutions and individuals have a responsibility to work against centuries of structural inequality.…

— Kirstin Valdez Quade

“When the norms associated with race take on a static and determining quality, they can be very difficult to undermine. Students who receive a…

— Pedro A. Noguera

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms'…

— Roger Ebert

America's history regarding race is troublesome and deserves the proper attention, but we cannot allow for the degradation of American values and culture through…

— Byron Donalds

Schools should be integrated by race and by class.

— Nikki Giovanni

Education is a bipartisan issue that concern all communities of color and should be first, last and always about the student learning.

— J. C. Watts

“Is it a function of schools to teach ethnic and racial pride? When does obsession with differences begin to threaten the idea of an…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr

Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because…

— William Torrey Harris

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority…

— Margaret Spellings