Community Quote by Mike Rose

“There’s only one way America’s neighborhoods will begin to integrate: people have to want it more than vested public and corporate interests are opposed…

— Tanner Colby

“The low standards of our state-run schools and our weak infrastructure have especially hurt the poor in terms of access: those of us who…

— Nandan Nilekani

“There is no school equal to a decent home, and”

— Mona Lisa Harding

“dozens of school districts forwent federal funding rather than integrate their schools.”

— Isabel Wilkerson

“School should become the place where teachers, not just students, learn.”

— Vijay Dhameliya

The persistence of housing discrimination and housing segregation makes it difficult at times to integrate schools. So what flows from that is disappointment and…

— Dana Goldstein

“It is time that we squarely face the fact that institutional schoolteaching is destructive to children.”

— John Taylor Gatto

“Then you've got the kids who live within a mile of the school and can walk home. Although this may not sound glamorous, it…

— Alecia Whitaker

“I also believe that the boundaries of school need to be made more porous and permeable, that we need to reduce the generational segregation…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

“So it’s a mixed bag. Schools help prepare us for the modern workplace and perhaps for society at large. But in order to do…

— Kevin Simler

Sure, integrating schools may sound benign. But whats the use of living in a gated community if my kids go to school and get…

— Stephen Colbert

Wherever schools can be integrated through the busing method, and where it won't be just a, a terrible inconvenience, I think it ought to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr