People who know but do not act do evil too. I don’t know if I would call them evil but they’re certainly not thinking about heaven.
MEET MR. HIV, writes an 11-year-old child, over a diamond-shaped face from which six scaly legs extend. He invades your body. This is what he looks like when he does, another child writes over a scary...
It is a matter of national pride that every child’s ship be kept afloat. Otherwise our nation would be subject to the charge that we deny poor children public school. But what is now encompassed by th...
It has recently become a matter of some interest to the press and to some academic experts to determine whether it is race or class that is the major factor in denial of these children. The question a...
I believe that the wilderness is where God is found.
Equity, after all, does not mean simply equal funding. Equal funding for unequal needs is not equality.
A caste society, wrote U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel 25 years ago, violates the style of American democracy.… The nation in effect does not have a truly public school system in a large...
But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she...
The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately.
You have to remember. . .that for this little boy whom you have met, his life is just as important to him, as your life is to you. No matter how insufficient or how shabby it may seem to some, it is t...
The struggle being waged today, where there is any struggle being waged at all, is closer to the one that was addressed in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson, in which the court accepted segregated institutio...
The New Jersey constitution, says the court in its decision, requires that all students be provided with an opportunity to compete fairly for a place in our society.… Pole vaulters using bamboo poles...
The Ann Arbor superintendent ridicules what he describes as simple-minded solutions [that attempt] to make things equal. But, of course, the need is not to make things equal. He would be correct to ca...
Segregation, he concluded, is neither sought nor imposed by healthy … human beings.
New York City manages expertly, and with marvelous predictability, whatever it considers humanly important. Fax machines, computers, automated telephones and even messengers on bikes convey a million...
When they pray, what do they say to God?
We are preparing a generation of robots. Kids are learning exclusively through rote. We have children who are given no conceptual framework. They do not learn to think, because their teachers are stra...
Turning in his seat, he gestures at the street and shrugs. If you don’t, as an American, begin to give these kids the kind of education that you give the kids of Donald Trump, you’re asking for disast...
The usual reduction in class size, says the —from 30 to 24, for instance—isn’t enough to make a difference. If this were really true, and if the wanted to help the poorest children of Chicago, the lo...
The rich...should beg the poor to forgive us for the bread we bring them. Healthy people sometimes feel they need to beg forgiveness too, although there is no reason why. Maybe we simply ask forgivene...