Quote by Jonathan Kozol
Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengea

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance. – Jonathan Kozol

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A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom. – Jonathan Kozol

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Experience
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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. – Jonathan Kozol

Category:
Freedom
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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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Learning
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History is a race between education and catastrophe. – H. G. Wells

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Education

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. – Woody Allen

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Education

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Education

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or well have poor education – thats a false choice. – Scott Walker

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Education

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