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No Child Left Behinds fourth-grade gains arent learning gains, the

No Child Left Behinds fourth-grade gains arent learning gains, theyre testing gains. Thats why they dont last. The law is a distraction from things that really count. – Jonathan Kozol

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By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there. – Jonathan Kozol

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Failure
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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. – Jonathan Kozol

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Government
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Im thinking about learning a few new things – like taking classical guitar lessons – and Id like to bring what I learn into hard rock. – Mick Mars

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I used to be so aggressive, but after a while I started learning. Its not that I know how to adapt, but I know all styles of fighting so I can change my style of fighting to whatever it needs to be. That just comes from years of training and a lot of sparring partners. – Marlen Esparza

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Id love to go to fashion week! Im learning more about designers, thanks to Pretty Little Liars costume designer, Mandi Line. – Lucy Hale

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Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. – Thomas Szasz

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Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved. – Mitt Romney

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I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators. – Gerald R. Ford

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Ones family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days Ill be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people wholl be with me will be my family. – Robert Byrd

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