- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.
- Nov 07, 2020
Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.
- Educations
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- Nov 07, 2020
So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020