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I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every

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. – Jonathan Kozol

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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. – Jonathan Kozol

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Knowledge
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During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed. – Jonathan Kozol

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Education
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Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, its not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter. – Marian Wright Edelman

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One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality. – Allen West

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Education

The point of my work is to show that culture and education arent simply hobbies or minor influences. – Pierre Bourdieu

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There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests. – Marvin Hamlisch

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