#student

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#charter #charter schools #florida #gained #improved

Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#california #college #grossly #high #high school

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#arabic #areas #behind #chinese #combined

So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

#applied #choice #dedicated #faculty #i

As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day. ↗

— David Naughton

#greats #had #i #london #many

When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained. ↗

— Holly Near

#demonstration #i #kent #killed #stage

When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#children #college #know #leave #life

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success. ↗

— Robert Orben

#caps #ceremony #commencement #dressed #event

One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities. ↗

— Bill Lear

#avail #capabilities #education #how #our

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism. ↗

— Spike Lee

#became #black #each #going #killing