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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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The inequalities are greater now than in 92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the equal level very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately. – Jonathan Kozol

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Money
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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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The highest result of education is tolerance. – Helen Keller

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Education

Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education. – Jesse Helms

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Education

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students. – Felix Bloch

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Education

In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State. – Bobby Jindal

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Education

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I dont like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. – Anne Stevenson

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I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like. – Nastia Liukin

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The dust and odour of ancient libraries, the gloom of those crypts of literature, have… all the charm of freshest images and freshest poetry. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out. – Jay London

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