#schools

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#african #african american #american #american children #attend

Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me. ↗

— Jill Scott

#around #been #gave #give #going

I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#determined #educational #i #i do #needs

Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values. ↗

— Peter Singer

#before #business #courses #ethics #ever

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#confuse #element #endowments #equal #equality

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

#coins #conclusion #courageous #fertile #guess

By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people. ↗

— Estelle Morris

#aims #clear #creating #department #descriptions

My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term. ↗

— Estelle Morris

#already #autumn #been #department #during

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#black #city #complicity #enormous #none

Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school! ↗

— Patty Murray

#anger #deal #good #good things #here