Monday, February 5, 2018

WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Happy birthday, Rosa Parks

Actor and activist Cynthia Nixon 

“We have to be more than the anti-Trump party,” she said at the annual Human Rights Campaign Greater New York gala, where she was given the Visibility Award. “In 2018, we don't just need to elect more Democrats, we also need better Democrats.” -- Politico
Eagles tight end Zach Ertz
“If they had overturned that [touchdown], I don’t know what would have happened to the city of Philadelphia." -- MSN
Teaching Tolerance Project
"In the ways that we teach and learn about the history of American slavery," write the authors of a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), "the nation needs an intervention." -- Teaching Hard History: American Slavery 
 Kristiina Volmari, Finnish National Agency for Education 
“We let children be children for as long as possible...We want our teachers to focus on learning, not testing. We do not, at all, believe in ranking students and ranking schools." -- SBS News

1 comment:

  1. Mike always has a refreshing point of view. He is one of the best writers in the education field with a knife edge of creative analitical power. I wish he would be more often and more widely published.

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