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 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...
I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.
When they pray, what do they say to God?
Equal funding is opposed for opposite reasons: either because it won’t improve or benefit the poorer schools—not necessarily, the governor’s assistant says—or because it would improve and benefit thos...
I believe that the wilderness is where God is found.
Two years ago, George Bush felt prompted to address this issue. More spending on public education, said the president, isn’t the best answer. Mr. Bush went on to caution parents of poor children who s...
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...
Many people, even those who view themselves as liberals on other issues, tend to grow indignant, even rather agitated, if invited to look closely at these inequalities. Life isn’t fair, one parent in...
Phone calls aired on several radio stations voice a raw contempt for the capacities of urban children (money will not help these children) but predict the imminent demise of education in the richer di...
Still, I think it grieves the heart of God when human beings created in His image treat other human beings like filthy rags.
That is the great luxury of long-existing and accepted segregation in New York and almost every other major city of our nation nowadays. Nothing needs to be imposed on anyone. The evil is already set...
The report by the Community Service Society cites an official of the New York City Board of Education who remarks that there is no point in putting further money into some poor districts because, in h...
We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.
No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.
A balancing act of equally unlikely options was the only answer that the city and the nation gave to the requests of these poor people. This juggling of options—in this instance, countering school-fun...
A four-year-old says, My mommy lives in heaven. Her eyelashes go down instead of up because she is … in heaven, but I miss her. She feels consoled that her mother is with God, who, she says, has pink...
A polarization of this issue, whereby some insist upon the primacy of school, others upon the primacy of family and neighborhood, obscures the fact that both are elemental forces in the lives of child...
Children long for this—a voice, a way of being heard—but many sense that there is no one in the world to hear their words, so they are drawn to ways of malice. If they cannot sing, they scream. They a...
East Side High became well known some years ago when its former principal, a colorful and controversial figure named Joe Clark, was given special praise by U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett. Be...
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