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“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“What I had come to understand was that the root cause of poor performance in schools is not 'bad schools' or 'bad teachers' but poverty. Closing schools and firing their teachers and principals does not help students. If anything, it introduces damaging instability into their lives. The privatizers hail disruption and call it 'creative,' but it is neither creative nor beneficial.”
― Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools
― Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools
“I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.”
― Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
― Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
“One problem with test-based accountability, as currently defined and used, is that it removes all responsibility from students and their families for the students' academic performance. NCLB neglected to acknowledge that students share in the responsibility for their academic performance and that they are merely passive recipients of their teachers' influence.”
― The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
― The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
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