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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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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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Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I dont think it works that way, and Ive been watching this for a longtime. – Jonathan Kozol

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My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, OK, we buy a racket, we watch together, because we didnt know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting. – Novak Djokovic

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But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us. – Lindsey Buckingham

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If anybody wanted to photograph my life, theyd get bored in a day. Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Heres Matt researching in aisle six of his local library. A few hours of that and theyd go home. – Matt Damon

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Imitation is being rewarded. Theyre learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression – its a means to a lifestyle. – Mike Watt

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Its better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one. – Harold S. Geneen

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But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and sixthe swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace. – John Adams

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The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves. – Catharine Esther Beecher

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