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By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any

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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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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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 nations competitive needs. – Jonathan Kozol

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We are now operating a school system in America thats more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King. – Jonathan Kozol

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Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man. – William Howard Taft

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Failure is impossible. – Susan B. Anthony

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We cant have a failure in Iraq, but we also cant be there for the next 10 years because if we are, its going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself. – Dennis Ross

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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure? – Ernest Hemingway

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