I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.
From Jonathan Kozol
The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.
The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking.
There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are.
I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older.
When I was young, I was religious.
But when I went to Harvard, it kind of got washed out of me, partly because people made fun of you in college. If you said you believed in God, they would look at you clinically, you know, suggest that you needed a referral.
My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.
Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.
We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.
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