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In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#ads #anyone #applications #book #children

It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#children #commonplace #contain #each #higher

President Obama's first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe, and he has several things to this effect, that he would like to provide universal preschool or at least far more preschool for our children. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#been #believe #better #changes #children

There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#bad #been #curriculum #elementary #elementary school

We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#any #death #king #luther #martin

Then to have your baby playing at the school you played at and having him play well is a special treat. ↗

— Jerry Kramer

#having #him #play #played #playing

I made a better decision in choosing my team. Sure, I had a bigger choice of players to choose from - but I couldn't have asked for a harder working group of players who did an incredible job. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#better #bigger #choice #choose #choosing

I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance. ↗

— Donald Trump

#great #i #school #student

The first acting thing I ever did was my senior year I decided not to play a sport in the Spring and, in that Spring B.J. Novak who went to school with me, asked if I'd be in this show that was a parody of all the teachers in the school, 'sure!' That was the first acting thing I did. ↗

— John Krasinski

#asked #decided #did #ever #first

Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced. ↗

— Lee Krasner

#experienced #felt #force #french #i