"The origins of these [schooling] federal policies were tied to President Johnson's war on poverty. Supplemental funds were sent to school districts serving poor children to compensate for issues related to poverty. Since the enactment of NCLB, the focus on mitigating poverty has been replaced by a focus on accountability as measured by test scores."

-- Pedro Noguera

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“The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.”
“If we should take a million of worlds like this and number their particles, we should find that there are more Gods than there are particles of matter in those worlds.”
“And I believe in the 13 years Judge Roberts was there, he never turned down a request to give some assistance on a pro-bono case, and this was no different.”
“When Negroes looked for the second phase, the realization of equality, they found that many of their white allies had quietly disappeared.... To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.”
“I would have loved to have been in a Hitchcock movie.”
“Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”

Source : Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy: Paradise”, Xist Publishing
“Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.”

Source : David Quammen (1996). “The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions”, Vintage
“My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian”

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