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As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

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At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority children typically represent 95 percent to 99 percent of class enrollment. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

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By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#any #attracting #best-educated #exciting #factor

Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal No Child Left Behind Act. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#advantage #behind #child #congress #created

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#after #between #black #black and white #board

I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#any #become #deeply #high #high school

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#because #been #contaminated #educations #expensive

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

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#be true #been #contempt #deal #demoralized

Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995. ↗

— Richard Krajicek

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