WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Women in Cook County Jail

Cook Country Board Pres. Toni Preckwinkle

"We had a delegation from South Africa that came to our jail to visit. They got to the end of their tour and they said, 'Where's the jail for white people?'" -- Ward Room

Prof. Salvatore Babones, Univ. of Sydney

Strangely, reform has gone from being a progressive cause to being a conservative curse. -- Salon

Jay Caspian Kang

“I kept thinking, Kids can’t learn if they’re dead.” -- NYT Magazine, Our Demand is Simple. Stop Killing Us. 

Arthur Costa, emeritus professor at California State Univ.

 “What was educationally significant and hard to measure has been replaced by what is educationally insignificant and easy to measure. So now we measure how well we taught what isn’t worth learning.” -- Quoted by Marian Brady, Washington Post